Protecting core packages from 3rd party software

Published on 14/05/2007 in Uncategorized. 4 Comments Tags: .

I have been having a bit of a play with CentOS 5. I am really digging it, except I miss livna. What I love about the stack of core/extras/livna is that it plays nice together, and nothing gets clobbered.

For 3rd party packages in CentOS/RHEL I have resorted to using rpmforge. My trouble is the first time you run yum update a whole bunch of rpmforge packages want to install over CentOS/Redhat ones. I am not too worried, but I imagine that if I was running RHEL and paying Redhat for support this situation would not be ideal.

First thing, install “yum-protectbase”.

# yum install yum-protectbase.noarch

Now nothing that is part of the official repo will get upgraded by software packages from third parties like rpmforge.

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  • Ralf Brunckhorst
    19/02/2008 at 10:20 pm

    Hi, I use this to contact you. Since your weblog has moved I cannot find a script to create a updated fedora boot dvd. Many links in the web point to http://www.users.on.net/~rgarth/weblog/fedora/patch_cd.autumn and there was a script update.sh
    I use this script in the past but accidentally delete it.
    But now I cannot find it anymore in the WEB.
    Can you help please.

    /Ralf

  • robg
    20/02/2008 at 7:31 am

    I have found these scripts on the old site:

    http://users.on.net/~rgarth/downloads/karsten/update_fedora.sh
    http://users.on.net/~rgarth/downloads/karsten/update_fedora_2006_05_27.sh
    http://users.on.net/~rgarth/downloads/remek/fc_update.sh

  • robg
    20/02/2008 at 7:32 am

    And I found the original: 

    #!/bin/sh

# Make sure to have yum-utils, anaconda, anaconda-runtime installed.
# Run as root.

# Works for Fedora Core 5 i386 and x86_64.

# Structure: $FCBASE/ - Contents of DVD
#            $FCBASE/updates - Directory where updates will be downloaded.
#            $FCBASE/update.sh - This script

export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime"
export FCBASE=`pwd`
arch=`uname -i`
date=`date +%Y%m%d`

# Uncomment if you need Proxy support for wget
#export http_proxy="http://172.24.83.67:8080"

echo "`date` - Downloading updates..."
echo ""

cd $FCBASE/updates
wget -nH -q --cut-dirs=7 -m -l 1 -c \
        http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/$arch/
cd $FCBASE

echo "`date` - Merging updates..."
echo ""

cp -f $FCBASE/updates/*.rpm $FCBASE/$arch/Fedora/RPMS/
repomanage --old $FCBASE/$arch/Fedora/RPMS | xargs rm -f
cd $FCBASE/$arch
createrepo -g Fedora/base/comps.xml .
cd ..

echo "`date` - Rebuilding installer..."
echo ""
pkgorder $FCBASE/$arch $arch Fedora > $FCBASE/pkgfile.$date
buildinstall --comp dist-5.$date --pkgorder $FCBASE/pkgfile.$date \
        --version 5 --product 'Fedora Core' --release 'Fedora Core 5' \
        --prodpath Fedora $FCBASE/$arch
rm -f $FCBASE/pkgfile.$date

echo "`date` - Creating DVD iso..."
echo ""

find $arch -name "TRANS.TBL" -exec rm -f {} \;
mkisofs -q -r -R -J -T -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
    -V "FC 5.$date $arch DVD" \
    -A "Fedora Core 5 $date $arch DVD" \
    -publisher "Simone Caronni slaanesh@fastwebnet.it" \
    -p "Simone Caronni slaanesh@fastwebnet.it" \
    -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -x lost+found \
    -o FC-5.$date-$arch-DVD.iso $arch
implantisomd5 FC-5.$date-$arch-DVD.iso

  • Ralf Brunckhorst
    21/02/2008 at 5:00 am

    Thank you so much.

    /Ralf

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