Yum-protectbase on Red Hat

Yum-protectbase on Red Hat

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Since version 5, Red Hat is moving from up2date to yum for software updates.

On CentOS, the yum-protectbase plugin is very helpful to prevent third party repositories from clobbering your CentOS installation. This plugin works by adding a configuration setting to each repository in /etc/yum.repos.d/

Unfortunately, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 uses "yum-rhn-plugin", and there is no .repo file for the Red Hat repositories. This means that the yum-protectbase cannot protect the RHEL repositories.

Efforts are underway to work around this, for example the yum-protectrhn plugin.

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