On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> I know how to exclude packages from automatic yum updates,
> but how do I exclude single files?
>
> In this case, /etc/X11/xorg.conf .  I am using the fglrx driver,
> which although closed source (sigh) is about 20x faster (glxgears)
> than the open source r500 driver for ATI graphics chips.
> The update package for x11 wants to update xorg.conf for me,
> and force me to use r500, bless its pointy little head.
>
> I can probably set xorg.conf to read only and chattr it to
> immutable, but yum might get vexed, now or after some future
> update of yum itself.
>
> Keith
>
>

What SL version are you asking about?

-Connie Sieh