dnf install custom rpm - dnf upgrade

[arnaud gaboury]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12. 10. 2015 at 12:04:00, arnaud gaboury wrote:
>> I built my own .rpm's for a meta package. These packages are only a
>> modification of an existing Fedora package. Before I installed my own
>> packages, I first removed the original version from Fedora.
>>
>> Thus now $ dnf list installed return correctly:
>> Software     version-MyBuild.fc22.1
>>
>> When doing a system upgrade, dnf want to install the original Fedora
>> version: Software-version.fc22.1
>
> I guess the official Fedora package was upgraded in remote repos and was
> therefore selected as an upgrade of your package. This happens if both
> packages have the same name.
>
>> Is there a way to change somewhere this behavior? Why dnf want to
>> upgrade a package which is not installed? I guess one solution would
>> be to give a different name for my own tweak rpm, but I thought
>> changing only versisoning would be enough. Another solution would be
>> to ignore these packages. Is there a clean and recommended way to
>> avoid dnf to upgrade these customs rpm's ?
>
> You basically have two options to do what you need:
>
> 1) Rename the package [1]

It sounds to me the cleanest way.
Thank you for these details

> 2) Bump the epoch so that the EVR of your custom package is always higher than
> the official one
>
> However, both of these options have some potential implications for stability
> of your system and you should know what are you doing before choosing one of
> them.
>
> [1]
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_Existing_Packages
>
> Jan



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