CentOS - Jul 2007 - Managing recompiled packages?

Hi,

I'm using Centos 5.0 on my desktop, and I'm very happy with it. One 
question bothers me. I rebuilt a handful of apps, for example K3B to 
enable MP3 audio, or libshout and mpd, to enable streaming audio.

Now what happens if these get updated? I guess the new version will 
squash my personal version. Is there a way to prevent these packages 
from being updated? Or how should I handle these?

Cheers,

Niki Kovacs

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Centos 5.0 on my desktop, and I'm very happy with it. One
> question bothers me. I rebuilt a handful of apps, for example K3B to 
> enable MP3 audio, or libshout and mpd, to enable streaming audio.
>
> Now what happens if these get updated? I guess the new version will 
> squash my personal version. Is there a way to prevent these packages 
> from being updated? Or how should I handle these?
ideally, package your new versions as RPMs that update the original, 
provide the compatability resources of the original RPMs, and are 
versioned such that no stock rhel/centos update will overwrite them

On 7/18/07, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Centos 5.0 on my desktop, and I'm very happy with it. One
> question bothers me. I rebuilt a handful of apps, for example K3B to
> enable MP3 audio, or libshout and mpd, to enable streaming audio.
>
> Now what happens if these get updated? I guess the new version will
> squash my personal version. Is there a way to prevent these packages
> from being updated? Or how should I handle these?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki Kovacs
A quick solution would be to add a line exclude=  in your repo files
and list the rpm names there.

Akemi