Having spent a harrowing time recovering my RT install from the willful vagaries of CentOS's yum updates* I'd now like to never have to do that again.
To this end, can anyone suggest which packages I should not allow to be updated through yum/rpm , or packages that I should only update through cpan? Many thanks, Gareth * Apache wouldn't load following updates, but that was easily fixed by updating File::Temp in cpan. It then however left me in the state of not running RT and instead trying to download a blank file. This was finally fixed by pulling all my hair out, crying in a corner, and finally deleting /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Scalar/Util.pm from disk & reinstalling Scalar::Util from cpan.
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