[CentOS] Excluded files from repos?

Ned Slider ned at unixmail.co.uk
Tue Jun 10 18:32:30 UTC 2008


Sam Drinkard wrote:
> Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after
> going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it
> returned with having 318 files excluded because of protection.  Is that
> too high a number?  I have the numerical protection set to 1.  Is there
> a good tutorial about how to correctly set up the protect base.  Sorry
> if this is a noobie question.. I've been away from CentOS for some time
> and needing to get back into the swing of things.
> 
> Thanks..
> 
> Sam

I would suggest you look at setting up "priorities" rather than "protect 
base":

http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities




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