Any way to remove an installed package from the RPM database?

[Stuart Gathman]

On 03/14/2016 08:45 PM, Jon Danniken wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have a package which I modified from the src.rpm and installed via RPM.
>
> Unfortunately, when I attempt to update my Fedora system (using dnf), it
> offers to update my modified version of the application which brings in
> several packages which conflict on my system.
>
> Is there any way to remove my modified application from the RPM database
> without uninstalling it?  Conversely, is there any way to install an RPM
> package without having it being added to the database?
Use  exclude= in your dnf.conf to prevent updating that package. Works 
for yum also.