Bug 245021 - yum-protectbase does not exclude obsoletes
Summary: yum-protectbase does not exclude obsoletes
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum-utils
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Seth Vidal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-06-20 15:57 UTC by Jason Farrell
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-07-05 13:30:11 UTC
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Description Jason Farrell 2007-06-20 15:57:40 UTC
Description of problem:
yum-protectbase fails to protect a protected repo's packages from being
overridden if an unprotected repo's package OBSOLETES it with a new name.

How reproducible:
When updates which obsolete are available in an unprotected repo.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install yum-protectbase
2. enable protection on all the base repos against rogue 3rd-party updates:
perl -i -pe "s/(\[.*\])/\1\nprotect=yes/" /etc/yum.repos.d/{fedora-*,livna-*}
3. install the dries or ATRPMS 3rd-party repo
4. yum update
  
Actual results:
A few 3rd-party packages still slip through the exclusion cracks because they're
obsoleting/replacing a package with a new name, rather than just updating one by
the same name.

Expected results:
obsoletes should also be excluded from replacing protected packages with one by
a new name.


Additional info:
Example update from ATRPMS:

# yum --enable updates-testing --enable livna-testing --enable atrpms
--changelog update
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "changelog" plugin
Loading "allowdowngrade" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up Update Process
154 packages excluded due to repository protections
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package PIL.i386 0:1.1.6-8.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package mpg123.i386 0:0.66-4.fc7 set to be updated

Changes in packages about to be updated:


Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 PIL                     i386       1.1.6-8.fc7      atrpms            427 k
     replacing  python-imaging.i386 1.1.6-3.fc7

 mpg123                  i386       0.66-4.fc7       atrpms            192 k
     replacing  mpg321.i386 0.2.10.3-3.lvn6


Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      2 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 620 k
Is this ok [y/N]:  


Seth, thanks for your general pointers on what needs to be modified to
accomplish this, unfortunately the yum api is a little over my head. - zcat

Comment 1 Jason Farrell 2007-07-05 13:30:11 UTC
The 'yum-priorities' plugin handles obsoletes, as well as more than just binary
protected/not-protected. Closing this bug since the priorities plugin should be
recommended in place of protectbase.


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