Sanjay Arora wrote: > List: > > I am using CentOS 4.2. I have installed the protectbase plugin and it > seems to work perfectly. Now I need to allow one or two softwares to > byepass protection e.g. I want to get xmms & some other media tools from > DAG's repository. Can I allow that without removing protection from the > entire base disto by using something like excludepkgs ets. > > Would this sort of thing lead to breakage of dependencies? Its quite likely that you'll run into dependency issues because the package(s) you want to selectively allow will depend on other packages from the same repo which are being excluded by the plugin. You might then decide to allow more packages from the repo to satisfy dependencies but it may become pointless to even use protectbase because you'll end up manually allowing so many packages. I guess it depends on which packages you want to allow and how many dependencies they have. It wouldn't be hard to modify the protectbase plugin to do what you want but I'm not sure how useful it will be. Maintaining the list of packages to allow will be messy. Menno
