Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it returned with having 318 files excluded because of protection. Is that too high a number? I have the numerical protection set to 1. Is there a good tutorial about how to correctly set up the protect base. Sorry if this is a noobie question.. I've been away from CentOS for some time and needing to get back into the swing of things. Thanks.. Sam
Sam Drinkard wrote:> Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after > going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it > returned with having 318 files excluded because of protection. Is that > too high a number? I have the numerical protection set to 1. Is there > a good tutorial about how to correctly set up the protect base.I'd go with the priorities plugin. Everything about Repositories, Protectbase, Priorities and more at: <http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/> Cheers, Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 194 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080610/435c4ce2/attachment-0002.sig>
Sam Drinkard wrote:> Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after > going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it > returned with having 318 files excluded because of protection. Is that > too high a number? I have the numerical protection set to 1. Is there > a good tutorial about how to correctly set up the protect base. Sorry > if this is a noobie question.. I've been away from CentOS for some time > and needing to get back into the swing of things. > > Thanks.. > > SamI would suggest you look at setting up "priorities" rather than "protect base": http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
Ralph Angenendt wrote:> Sam Drinkard wrote: > >> Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after >> going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it >> returned with having 318 files excluded because of protection. Is that >> too high a number? I have the numerical protection set to 1. Is there >> a good tutorial about how to correctly set up the protect base. >> > > I'd go with the priorities plugin. > > Everything about Repositories, Protectbase, Priorities and more at: > > <http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/> > > Cheers, > > Ralph > >Just to be on the safe side, I installed both plugins and have them configured now. FWIW, I did a yum check-update and for some unknown reason, I got no dependency issues and nothing was tagged for update! Surely the addition of the protectbase and priorities plugins didn't do that??? I appreciate all you all have responded, and apologize for the lame questions. Time for me to do some more list reading I suppose. Sam