Work around below
[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://ftp.hostrino.com/pub/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
exclude=php* httpd* postgres* MySQL* mysql* perl perl-DBD-MySQL
perl-DBD-Pg perl-DBI perl-suidperl unixODBC* mod_auth_mysql
mod_auth_pgsql mod_perl mod_perl-devel mod_ssl
priority=1
#released updates
[update]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
baseurl=http://ftp.hostrino.com/pub/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
exclude=php* httpd* postgres* MySQL* mysql* perl perl-DBD-MySQL
perl-DBD-Pg perl-DBI perl-suidperl unixODBC* mod_auth_mysql
mod_auth_pgsql mod_perl mod_perl-devel mod_ssl
priority=1
I tried changing perl to perl-* and yum check-update finally listed the
perl package.
yum check-update
18 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
httpd.x86_64 2.0.59-1.el4s1.10.el4. centosplus
httpd-manual.x86_64 2.0.59-1.el4s1.10.el4. centosplus
mod_perl.x86_64 2.0.3-1.el4s1.3 centosplus
mod_ssl.x86_64 1:2.0.59-1.el4s1.10.el centosplus
mysql.x86_64 5.0.54-1.el4.centos centosplus
mysql-devel.x86_64 5.0.54-1.el4.centos centosplus
mysql-server.x86_64 5.0.54-1.el4.centos centosplus
mysqlclient10.x86_64 3.23.58-9.2.c4 centosplus
perl.x86_64 4:5.8.8-5.el4s1_2 centosplus
perl-DBD-MySQL.x86_64 3.0008-1.el4.centos centosplus
perl-DBD-Pg.x86_64 1.49-1.el4s1 centosplus
perl-DBI.x86_64 1.54-1.el4s1 centosplus
perl-libwww-perl.noarch 5.805-1.1.1 centosplus
php.x86_64 5.1.6-3.el4s1.8 centosplus
php-gd.x86_64 5.1.6-3.el4s1.8 centosplus
php-ldap.x86_64 5.1.6-3.el4s1.8 centosplus
php-mbstring.x86_64 5.1.6-3.el4s1.8 centosplus
php-pear.noarch 1:1.4.11-1.el4s1.1 centosplus
php-pgsql.x86_64 5.1.6-3.el4s1.8 centosplus
postgresql.x86_64 8.1.9-1.el4s1.1 centosplus
postgresql-devel.x86_64 8.1.9-1.el4s1.1 centosplus
postgresql-libs.x86_64 8.1.9-1.el4s1.1 centosplus
postgresql-server.x86_64 8.1.9-1.el4s1.1 centosplus
unixODBC.x86_64 2.2.12-1.el4s1.1 centosplus
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