CentOS 5 yum updates breaks MailScanner

[Brendan Pirie]

I highly recommend you (and anyone using CentOS) take a look at the 
yum-protectbase and yum-priorities plugins for yum 
http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum (Note: you can only use one 
or the other, not both).  They can be extremely useful in minimizing 
some of the risks associated with 3rd party packages.

Brendan

Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
> 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.