[CentOS] Protectbase Plugin not working?
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Sat May 6 19:38:27 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 09:26 -1000, Camron W. Fox wrote:
> Alle,
>
> I have installed and enabled (I think) the yum protectbase plugin:
>
> [cwfox at lurker ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i protectbase
> yum-plugin-protectbase-1.1-1.c4
> [cwfox at lurker ~]$ cat /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/protectbase.conf
> [main]
> enabled = 1
> [cwfox at lurker ~]$ grep plugin /etc/yum.conf
> plugins=1
> [cwfox at lurker ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
> <SNIP>
> [base]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
> #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
> protect=1
> </SNIP>
>
> However, when I do yum check-update as in the following example, there
> are zero package exclusions and the Dag repo package for rsync (which is
> a CentOS base package, I believe) is listed:
>
> [cwfox at lurker ~]$ sudo yum check-update --enablerepo=dag rsync
> Loading "protectbase" plugin
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Setting up repositories
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> 0 packages excluded due to repository protections
>
> rsync.i386 2.6.8-1.el4.rf dag
> [cwfox at lurker ~]$ rpm -qi rsync
> Name : rsync Relocations: /usr
> Version : 2.6.3 Vendor: CentOS
> Release : 1 Build Date: Mon Feb 21
> 07:16:46 2005
> Install Date: Wed Aug 10 14:28:27 2005 Build Host: guru.build.karan.org
> Group : Applications/Internet Source RPM:
> rsync-2.6.3-1.src.rpm
> Size : 262544 License: GPL
> Signature : DSA/SHA1, Sat Feb 26 11:37:08 2005, Key ID a53d0bab443e1821
> Packager : Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>
> Summary : A program for synchronizing files over a network.
>
>
> Shouldn't this package from the Dag repository be on the exclusion list
> or am I misunderstanding the way protectbase is supposed to work?
>
> Best Regards,
> Camron
>
You have to put:
protect=0
in all the non-protected repos as well
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