Bypassing taboo rpms in yast

It has been mentioned here that yast ignores rpm packages marked as taboo: the next time you run it, it will silently try to reinstall them. Even the checkmark on "auto check dependencies" is marked automatically, it does not remember it was off last time :-( I bumped into this nuissance the other day. I had been compiling xcdroast-0.98alpha13, which requires cdrtools-2.0. This package suse distributes as cdrecord an mkisofs instead, and of an older version. The problem is that if I remove this two, yast will try to reinstall them on my back, windoze style! Solution: Create your own mkisofs and cdrecord fake rpms. - Make a dir somewhere named "cdrecord-1.15.999" (note the version is intentionally faked as newer than the suse provided one, which was 1.11, if I remember correctly). - Create any program. For example: --- dummie_cdrecord.c #include int main() { printf("Fake program to make yast believe there is a cdrecord.rpm\n") printf("It can be safely deleted now\n); } ---- Makefile all: dummie_cdrecord gcc dummie_cdrecord.c -o dummie_cdrecord install: install dummie_cdrecord /usr/local/bin Then, run "make all", and "checkinstall" (as root this last one). Checkinstall will create and the appropiate rpm, named "cdrecord-1.15.999-1.i386.rpm" in "/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/", and that's it, yast will not complain any more (check) - at least till suse provides a newer version that the one we just faked. And repeat for "mkisofs-1.15.999" -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson