/etc/yum/protected.d/ content thwarts yum update/upgrade

[Felix Miata]

On 2012/04/01 17:59 (GMT+0100) Frank Murphy composed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

>>  I have one package I want to keep from being replaced, so I created a
>>  file in protected.d/ according to
> <snipped>
>>  'Error: Trying to remove "<protected-package>", which is protected'.

> That's the way protected works.

I think it's a stretch of the definition of "works" that something doing its 
job can prevent 200 unrelated upgrade jobs from proceeding. :-(

On openSUSE and Mandriva the package managers either produce messages with 
options what to do about affected packages (e.g. allow breakage of package 
foo, don't upgrade/keep bar, ignore the protection, etc.), or silently work 
around packages related to the protected, when protected packages are 
encountered, without stubbornly blocking the processing of unrelated packages.

> You could also try an exclude line in /etc/yum.conf
> see if you fare any better.

Didn't help. :-(

> Curious what is the package?

grub-0.97-75.fc16.i686 (and whatever may depend on it). I know how to 
maintain menu.lst/grub.conf myself, so don't need automatic bootloader 
maintenance at kernel upgrade time. I don't need EFI capability either.

> Best option would be to get the srpm
> and rebuild for current Fedora if possible.

I don't build any software. I test what others build, on many machines, many 
releases per system. Space per installed OS is intentionally limited to the 
minimum necessary for OS and common apps to run, so sources and build tools 
don't fit, even if I did know how or care to use them. I don't want Grub2 on 
my systems, but do want some idea what cmdline options would be used if it 
was installed.
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