On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 15:41 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > >>> Thanks again for your help!!! > >> is it possible that you have extras set at a different priority than > >> base ... you also have the protectbase installed along with priorities > >> (not recommended). > >> > >> You should have these settings for [extras], [base] and [updates] > >> sections in CentOS-Base.repo: > >> > >> priority=1 > >> protect=1 > >> > >> You should also (after properly configuring your repo files), use > >> yum-priorities and remove yum-protectbase. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > > > > Johnny, > > > > That fixed the problem. I had the Extras as set to a priority of 2. I > > also disabled protectbase. Can you comment about the use "protectbase" > > When should it be used? > > > > Thank you much for your help!!! > > Protectbase is basically priorities with only 2 options ... 1 and 0 > > Priorities is the same thing with 1 to 99 as options > > So, if you need more control than protected and unprotected, then you > want to use priorities. > > Here is more info on each: > > http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities > > http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/ProtectBase > > _______________________________________________ Good explanations... thanks much for the links !!!!