CentOS 5 yum updates breaks MailScanner

[Eric Merkel]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raymond Dijkxhoorn" <raymond at prolocation.net>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: CentOS 5 yum updates breaks MailScanner


> 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.

I like using rpm's as much as possible to make updating as painless as 
possible. I didn't realize rpmforge would break other things. Just curious, 
if most people just build clamav from source or how they go about keeping 
clamav up to date?

-Eric