CentOS 5 yum updates breaks MailScanner

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at prolocation.net
Thu Dec 20 14:28:38 GMT 2007


Hi!

> My questions is, since MailScanner builds a lot of it's own perl rpms from 
> source during the install script, is there a way to keep further yum updates 
> from updating or overriding what MailScanner has built?
>
> This is my first time installing MailScanner on Centos so I am not really 
> familiar with the best procedure to keep the OS as well as MailScanner up to 
> date. Is there a best practice for doing this?

Place some exclude= stuff inside your yum.conf, you can exclude whatever 
you want there from your regular updates.

Stuff like rpmforge will break more updates, not only MS. Be carefulll 
with adding 3rd party repo's.

Bye,
Raymond.


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