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