On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 09:29 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 10:23 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Have followed all instructions, googled and read Johnny's November post, > > <snip demonstration of "smart questioning" > > > Haven't been able to find a protect base python plugin from CentOS, > > although I clearly recall it being said that CentOS supported it and the > > fastest mirrors. > > > > Need to get it from the Duke plugin web page? Or what did I do wrong? > > > > TIA > > yum install yum-plugin-protectbase That's the one I'm missing. I wonder why it didn't show in my yum list? *sigh* more learning curve I guess. > > If fastest mirror is already working, then this should be too. Fast mirror *seems* to be and I can find it's .py and config stuff. > > you need to add the lines: > > protect=1 > > or > > protect=0 > > to all repos in /etc/yum.conf or /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files. > > AND you need to edit /etc/yum.conf and add the line: > > plugins=1 > Got all that ok. It's only the protect* I couldn't find anywhere. Thanks, -- Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060406/aeed1bee/attachment-0004.sig>