skipping xmms package updates?

[Ferindo Middleton]

I've uninstalled xmms from my system and went to www.xmms.org to reinstall
the package using the rpm provided at the site so I can play mp3 files. How
do I stop this package from being updated and overwritten during nightly yum
updates so that I don't end up automatically going back to a fedora channel
distribution that can't play mp3 files?

Ferindo
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just ferindo

[Ed Greshko]

Ferindo Middleton wrote:
>  I've uninstalled xmms from my system and went to www.xmms.org
>  <http://www.xmms.org> to reinstall the package using the rpm provided at
>  the site so I can play mp3 files. How do I stop this package from being
>  updated and overwritten during nightly yum updates so that I don't end
>  up automatically going back to a fedora channel distribution that can't
>  play mp3 files? 
Do a "man yum" or "man yum.conf" and look for information on
"exclude".

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[Steven Pasternak]

Ferindo Middleton wrote:
>  I've uninstalled xmms from my system and went to www.xmms.org 
>  <http://www.xmms.org> to reinstall the package using the rpm provided 
>  at the site so I can play mp3 files. How do I stop this package from 
>  being updated and overwritten during nightly yum updates so that I 
>  don't end up automatically going back to a fedora channel distribution 
>  that can't play mp3 files?
>
>  Ferindo
>  -- 
>  just ferindo  
When you do the yum update, do 'yum --exclude=*xmms* update',
and 
anything having to do with xmms will be left alone.

[Keith]

A quick way is to remove xmms from the rpm database listing
/var/lib/rpm.
I don't know if rpm allows you to install a package without adding it
to the rpm database. I have used midnight commander to extract files
to /usr/local/ for certain programs that I don't want rpm to update or
know about.



On 9/2/06, Ferindo Middleton <ferindo.middleton(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  I've uninstalled xmms from my system and went to www.xmms.org to
> reinstall
>  the package using the rpm provided at the site so I can play mp3 files. How
>  do I stop this package from being updated and overwritten during nightly yum
>  updates so that I don't end up automatically going back to a fedora channel
>  distribution that can't play mp3 files?
>
>  Ferindo
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>  just ferindo
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[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 21:23 -0400, Ferindo Middleton wrote:
>  I've uninstalled xmms from my system and went to www.xmms.org to
>  reinstall the package using the rpm provided at the site so I can play
>  mp3 files. How do I stop this package from being updated and
>  overwritten during nightly yum updates so that I don't end up
>  automatically going back to a fedora channel distribution that can't
>  play mp3 files? 
>  
>  Ferindo 
The obvious waqy is to put in yum.conf the line:
exclude=xmms
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