Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS repos in a RHEL machine

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:47:23AM -0700, MHR enlightened us:

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The only limitation I have been able to see with RHEL's yum is the lack of the priorities plugin. You can use protectbase as a replacement.

Well, sort of - priorities is far more flexible, so protectbase is sort of a crippled replacement at best.

But, at least it's there....

Agreed, but because of the way the rhn plugin works in yum, you can't assign a priority to it. Apparently they've modified the plugin to set protect=1 on RHN channels, so if you add other repos and don't want core system packages replaced, set protect=0 and enable protectbase.

Matt