[CentOS] Excluded files from repos?

[Sam Drinkard]

Lanny Marcus wrote:
> On 6/10/08, Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net> wrote:
>   
>> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I'd go with the priorities plugin.
>>>
>>> Everything about Repositories, Protectbase, Priorities and more at:
>>>
>>> <http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Ralph
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Just to be on the safe side, I installed both plugins and have them
>> configured now.  FWIW, I did a yum check-update and for some unknown
>> reason, I got no dependency issues and nothing was tagged for update!
>> Surely the addition of the protectbase and priorities plugins didn't do
>> that???
>>
>> I appreciate all you all have responded, and apologize for the lame
>> questions.  Time for me to do some more list reading I suppose.
>>     
>
> Sam: Having both plugins installed is probably *not* a good thing to
> do. As was previously suggested, probably best to go with Priorities.
> Read this page:
> <http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities>
> I think the number of Packages being excluded (318) is in the ballpark.
> 73, Lanny
Thanks for the tip Lanny.  Just set it up and will let it fly with 
priorities only.

Sam