On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:54 +0200, Tony Scholes wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The attached code implements a plugin that protects against updating
> packages from the Red Hat Network.
> 
> It's basically a hacked version of protectbase, and is needed because on RH
> Enterprise Linux 5 RH use a plugin to present the RH Network channels as yum
> repositories, so there is no repository configuration file to add a
> protect=1 to in order to allow protectbase to work.
> 
> It could be improved upon by implementing a more robust method of detecting
> that a repository is a RH network repo (currently it relies on finding the
> text "rhel-" somewhere in the name of the repository.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

why not patch rhn-plugin to be compatible with protectbase?

-sv


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