Re: up2date question

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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:45:04 -0500, Anthony Abby wrote:

> >I have build some custom RPMs from RH source packages (like postfix
> >and imap) and I label them by changed the revision number to my
> >initials. So I have postfix-1.1.7-jdg, or imap-2001a-jdg. (For those
> >diligent readers who notice the version numbers, I'm actually doing
> >this on Valhalla, but I figure this is a pretty generic question in
> >terms of specific releases). The problem is that up2date wants to
> >upgrade these, and I don't want it to. Without marking them as
> >packages to skip (whould I do that as *jdg?) how do I have my custom
> >RPMs labeled in a manner that up2date will not try to upgrade them?
> 
> This is actually pretty easy to fix.  Either enter them in the
> exceptions list, or rename your RPMs to include both the version and
> your initials.  Mandrake adds MDK to their RPMS... ie...
> 1-2.3MDK-i586...  You might try that.

The latter suggestion would not work because Mandrakesoft's "mdk"
tag is treated as belonging to the package revision, so that:
1.0-2mdk > 1.0-2abc > 1.0-2

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