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