New subject: [SLE] Bypassing taboo rpms in yast

2 Mar 2003

      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

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