Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > I'm a little lost in the thread, but do you mean that yum's protected > packages functionality is undocumented? If that is what you mean, check the > man page. It says: > > protected_packages This is a list of packages that yum should > never completely remove. They are protected via Obsoletes as > well as user/plugin removals. > > The default is: yum glob:/etc/yum/protected.d/*.conf So any > packages which should be protected can do so by including a file > in /etc/yum/protected.d with their package name in it. > > Also if this configuration is set to anything, then yum will > protect the package corresponding to the running version of the > kernel. While documented, I do find this last bit of behavior extremely odd and non-intuitive. (And hardcoded, no less.) Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
