Introducing yum-plugin-overwrite

[Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail]

Another aftermath of releaseparty.

We needed a mechanism to easily overwrite files from upstream fedora,
while not maintaining the packages ourselves. Theres no way to do that
before, but its possible now !

https://dev.inigo-tech.com/svn/izhar/YumOverwrite/trunk/

Installing

svn co https://dev.inigo-tech.com/svn/izhar/YumOverwrite/trunk/ YumOverwrite
tar cvjf YumOverwrite.tar.bz2 YumOverwrite
rpmbuild -tb YumOverwrite.tar.bz2
rpm -ivh path/to/generated/rpm

Usage:

create a configuration in /etc/sysconfig/overwrite.d/ with a name that
ends with .cfg  (eg: pidginicon.cfg)

config format:

[packagename]
/path/to/replacement/file/or/folder=/path/to/original/file/or/folder

packagename is the rpm package you want to overwrite . eg: pidgin

Once you've created that, simply yum install packagename (or reinstall) ..
and the plugin will automatically replace the original with your replacement

p/s: this is useful if you guys wanna create an icon rpm package :D

if anybody have patches or ideas, feel free to spam .. of course, code
worth more than ideas :P