On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 02:56:14PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > 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.) > <nod> Just have yum drop a config file in there that protects the kernel rather than protecting the kernel if some other package chooses to protect something else. -Toshio
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