On 8/5/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote: > The purpose of protect base is to allow you to do updates from a > repository and prevent updating any protected packages but allow > updating of non-protected packages. > > php would show up as protected ... and would not update. This was discussed before on a thread I started a few weeks ago ... if the [base] section contains protect=1 exclude=php* then the php packages from centosplus would be available, along with any other centosplus packages that do not have corresponding packages in the base, while protecting the overlapping packages. > You need to edit the centosplus section of CentOSBase.repo and use: > > includepkgs=php* That works when protectbase is not used. Which approach is preferable probably depends on how many packages one wants from centosplus, and on whether one wants to protect the base packages from any other repos one may have enabled (such as rpmforge).