[CentOS] Removed Plus kernel, yum still wants to update plus kernel

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Tue Sep 5 11:38:19 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 14:47 -0400, Thomas E Dukes wrote:
>  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin
> > Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 2:35 PM
> > To: CentOS mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Removed Plus kernel,yum still wants to 
> > update plus kernel
> > 
> > > So where does yum keep its 'memory', so I can remove 
> > references to the 
> > > plus kernel and get back to the regular kernel?????
> > 
> > Either disable the centosplus repository, or exclude the 
> > kernel from that repository. I have no idea how yumex handles 
> > this, as I'm pretty much a console only type person. For 
> > general yum behavior, read 'man yum.conf' and look at the 
> > contents of /etc/yum.repos.d/
> 
> I have a similar problem but I use yum from the command line so it may be a
> problem with yum itself.
> 
> I installed GeoIP from Centos 'extras' repo.  I also have dag setup as a
> repo.  I have installed the protectbase plugin and it is enabled.  In
> yum.conf I have enabled plugins.  In the Centos repo file, I have all Centos
> repos protected and the dag repo set as unprotected.
> 
> Everytime I run yum update, it wants to 'replace' the geoip from the dag
> repo.
> 
> What's up with that?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Eddie
> 

Dag has it named geoip and we have it named GeoIP

those are separate packages to yum ... set exclude=geoip in your dag
repo.
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