I run a Redhat clone (Scientific Linux 5). It uses "yum" for updates. I know how to exclude packages from update, but how do I exclude single files?
In this case, /etc/X11/xorg.conf . I am using the fglrx driver, which although closed source (sigh) is about 20x faster (glxgears) than the open source r500 driver for ATI graphics chips. The update package for x11 wants to update xorg.conf for me, and force me to use r500, bless its pointy little head. I can probably set the file to read only and chattr it to immutable, but yum might get vexed, now or after some future update of yum itself. I probably could track down the bozo who decided to include xorg.conf in the update process, and thrash the living daylights out of him, but people would talk. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
