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