[Yum] protectbase plugin question & other plugins

[Greg Knaddison]

On 11/23/05, Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora at gmail.com> wrote:
> List:
>
> I am using CentOS 4.2. I have installed the protectbase plugin and it
> seems to work perfectly. Now I need to allow one or two softwares to
> byepass protection e.g. I want to get xmms & some other media tools from
> DAG's repository. Can I allow that without removing protection from the
> entire base disto by using something like excludepkgs ets.
>
> Would this sort of thing lead to breakage of dependencies?

It sounds like maybe versionlock could do what you want, but I'm not
really sure how most of these work.

>
> Also, What other plugins for yum are there? Please giveme a URL where I
> can find this info.

I just added the information from
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum-devel/2005-August/001498.html

to

http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumPlugins

If someone can add more details on how these plugins work, I'd love to hear it.

Regards,
Greg