On 03/15/2016 03:43 AM, Florian Festi wrote: > On 03/15/2016 11:27 AM, Florian Festi wrote: >> On 03/15/2016 03:26 AM, Stuart Gathman wrote: >>> On 03/14/2016 08:45 PM, Jon Danniken wrote: >>>> Hello list, >>>> >>>> I have a package which I modified from the src.rpm and installed via RPM. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately, when I attempt to update my Fedora system (using dnf), it >>>> offers to update my modified version of the application which brings in >>>> several packages which conflict on my system. >>>> >>>> Is there any way to remove my modified application from the RPM database >>>> without uninstalling it? Conversely, is there any way to install an RPM >>>> package without having it being added to the database? >>> Use exclude= in your dnf.conf to prevent updating that package. Works >>> for yum also. >> >> Another solution is the Epoch: tag. It is used in version comparisons >> even before the version. So setting the epoch to a number higher of the >> Fedora package (No Epoch is treated as 0) will make all Fedora updates >> "older" that your modified package. To be on the save side you could >> increase the Epoch by more than one. > > > To elaborate on this a bit: > > The benefit of using the Epoch tag is that it does not depend on a > specific configuration of the local yum/dnf instances but has this > behavior embedded directly in the package itself. That way you could > just offer your own local yum repositories to your machines and they > would automatically update to your modified package without any special > interaction. This is especially useful if you update your modified > package more often or have multiple machines that need modified packages. > > See createrepo and yum.conf/dnf.conf man pages for the details. Thanks much, Florian. I rebuilt the package using the Epoch: tag and it's working great! Jon _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
