On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 09:42 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 19:59 -0400, Robert Spangler wrote: > > On Thu June 29 2006 16:20, Bart Schaefer wrote: > > > > > I've been trying out the protectbase plugin for yum, and haven't yet > > > determined the best way to selectively update a package. E.g. I'd > > > like to mark the base repo as protected, but get the latest firefox > > > from the centosplus repo. > > > > > > What's the correct incantation for this? > > > > Goto your /etc/yum.repos.d and edit CentOS-Base.repo and do the following; > > > > under [base] add > > exclude=firefox > > > > Under [centosplus] add > > includepkgs=firefox > > But - this will effectively exclude all other centosplus packages. > May/may-not be what was wanted. I've also played with protectbase and > found it difficult to find the right combination of protect=0/1 and > include/exclude to get the desired behavior to allow some packages from > add-on repos. Eventually ended up with protect=1 for all the repos I > wanted to use which kind of defeats the purpose. > > Phil When you use protectbase ... you are saying this: For all repos where protect=1, use normal update rules ... but, for all repos where protect=0 do not update any packages in a protect=1 repo. SO .... If you every want centosplus to replace anything in base then they would both have to be in either protect=1 (or both repos would need to be in protect=0). In that case, you would still need to use exclude and includepkgs to manage which other packages from centosplus would be updated. The purpose of the protectbase plugin is to protect a repo (like base) ... from a repo (like atpms). It isn't defeating the purpose ... That is how it is designed :)
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