Showing posts with label yum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yum. Show all posts

Sunday, April 27, 2008

'yum-protectbase' vs. RHN

I can't seem to get 'yum-protectbase' to behave correctly with RHEL5's rhnplugin. From `rpm -qi yum-protectbase`:

Description :
This plugin allows certain repositories to be protected. Packages in the protected repositories can't be overridden by packages in non-protected repositories even if the non-protected repo has a later version.

The problem is that, the RHN repositories aren't defined by standard files in '/etc/yum.repos.d/' so I can't add 'protect=1'. The same problem is documented here and here.

[EDIT]: This bug has now been fixed. See my comments on this post for details.