Daniel de Kok wrote on Sun, 07 May 2006 15:01:36 +0200:
Under what circumstances is its behavior inconsistent?
Look at the recent thread "differences between yum update and yum check-update" which seems to be caused by protectbase. It showed different results for check-update and update which would create completely undesired action during the update. It doesn't seem to protect in all cases. F.i. if the package from protect=0 contains an "obsoletes" statement (at least that is what I assume) it can overwrite protect=1.
Kai