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 :)