Bug 151499 – up2date could protect core packages from being replaced

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Bug 151499 - up2date could protect core packages from being replaced

Summary:	up2date could protect core packages from being replaced

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 151498

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	up2date (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Adrian Likins
QA Contact:	Fanny Augustin
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2005-03-18 12:53 EST by Dag Wieers
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-03-18 12:54:07 EST
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Description Dag Wieers 2005-03-18 12:53:03 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Galeon/1.3.20

Description of problem:
I guess it would benefit everyone (Red Hat, users, me) if up2date had an option (maybe enabled by default) to protect it's own/core packages. Ie. prefer RHN packages over 3rd party packages.

I guess it would make sense to have this by default since it could prevent support calls to Red Hat about something that is caused by 3rd party packages.

I try to keep the number of replaced packages down, but a switch like this could allow me to offer more packages and leave it up to the user whether to use the official package or the 3rd party package.

This in itself will lead to a better understanding what packages are not Red Hat's (and by consequence excluded from support).

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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Dag Wieers 2005-03-18 12:54:07 EST

Damn browser...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151498 ***

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