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On 6/30/05, Jay Lee <jlee@(protected)> wrote:
> I have one RHEL3 box that due to third party requirements, needs to run
> Apache 1.3. In order to do this, I grabbed the RHEL 2.1 apache and
> mod_ssl SRPMS and rebuilt them on RHEL3. This is working beautifully.
> To keep up2date from reinstalling apache 2.0 RPMS I have this in
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date:
>
> pkgSkipList=httpd*;apache*;mod_ssl*;
>
> this keeps up2date from actually installing the new packages, however
> RHN (I have a managed subscription) constantly shows the Errata for
> httpd and shows the system as needing attention. There does not seem to
> be a way of telling RHN to ignore those errata for that box. Any ideas
> on how to get around this? One possibility I've considered is modifying
> the .spec files for the 2.1AS RPMS in order to prevent RHN from seeing
> them as apache or httpd RPMS but I'm not quite sure how to do this. Any
> thoughts? I of course realize this is well out of the bounds of RedHat
> support which is why I'm posting here instead of placing a support call :-)
If you bump the epoch in the version you are compiling to something
larger than Red Hat is using in its apache rpms I think that should
make up2date think your package is newer. That would be a smaller mod
to the spec file.
John
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