OOo PPC suport. [patchset !!]

[Dennis Gilmore]

Once upon a time at band camp Sun, 2 Nov 2003 5:07 am, Balint Cristian wrote:

> 	RH pack for IBM mainframes boxes thay are not aware of macs, but the tree
> is very usable on macs too as userland.

Ok  once im updated ill work on building a new kernel  maybe 2.6.0

> 	Half year ago have YDL-2.? than step by step I rpm -Uvh (no yum/repos at
> that time) packages from rawhide except these very mac specific packages:
>
> kernel- (unexistent in rawhide)
> initscripts-
> gpm-
> pmud- (unexistent in rawhide)
>
> 	In reset _everything_ is upgradable no YDL will broke if these 4 are kept
> original and untouched from YDL.
>
> 	Now can't use yum, I am always afraid to not broke these 4 packages
> (practicaly 2-> initscript and gpm), i trick yum by pass exactly what want
> to update never do something like "yum update", olso I selfmaintain
> gpm+initscripts by recompile it from YDL src.rpm but increase the version
> number to trick yum (ugly dirty method), than i can "yum update" the whole
> and no breakage happen.
>
> 	If someone know how to config yum to not upgrade specific packages will be
> nice will save from dirty thing !

add a line to your gloal yum.conf file

exclude=kernel initscripts gpm pmud

and you should be ok to use yum