Just leave ximian out of the sources.list and it will never even check for those packages. :) Now if we could get it to be smart enough not to uninstall fetchmail-5.9.13 in favor of the newest SuSE rpm ;) That would be a god sent. It uninstalled the fetchmail rpm I installed off ESR's site and didn't install the 5.9.0 pkg from SuSE. I wondered for hours why I wasn't getting email last Friday. *laugh* Anyways. Just put the directories you want in the sources.list in /opt/apt and you should be fine. * Jamie O'Shaughnessy (jamie.oshaughnessy@ntlworld.com) [020701 00:16]: :: ::I've tried apm4rpm and although I like the idea, I'm not that happy about ::how well it's working. It seems it is more than willing to upgrade ::necessary libraries and other components from sources like Ximian and 3rd ::party builders. I don't want that, as I've been burned far too much in the ::past with getting systems in a state and not being able to easily move ::back to suse rpms. If I could make apt work to only get rpms from the suse ::site, I'd be much happier. :: ::Still apm4rpm doesn't solve the problem on SuSE's site having rpms that ::won't install with one another. :: ::Jamie :: ::On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, John Ross Hunt wrote: :: ::> > I know the extra updated packages on ftp.suse.com are ::> > supplementary, but ::> > it's a real pain that SuSE don't keep them in sync. e.g. ::> > under Gnome there ::> > is a mozilla-1.0-10.rpm but under Mozilla there is a ::> > mozilla-1.0-4.i386.rpm - so you can't use the ::> > mozilla-mail-1.0-4.i386.rpm ::> > (to get mail in mozilla) package unless you install the ::> > Mozilla directory ::> > version of mozilla - of course then you can't use the galeon ::> > out of the ::> > Gnome directory :( ::> > ::> > I know it's work for SuSE to keep doing these builds, but ::> > it's frustrating ::> > as a user to go through this. ::> ::> That's why apt4rpm was invented: ::> ::> http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ ::> ::> If that's too convoluted, just download from the FTP site: ::> ::> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/ ::> ::> It's synchronized with the latest and greatest updates + supplementary ::> stuff. ::> ::> -jrh ::> ::> ::> ::> :: ::-- ::Jamie O'Shaughnessy jamie.oshaughnessy@ntlworld.com :: :: ::-- ::To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ::For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ::Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com :: -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- Tell me what you believe..I tell you what you should see. -DP --=====-----=====--