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 -- Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu America, INC. E-mail: cwfox at us.fujitsu.com