How do I use 3rd party RPM repositories without facing conflicts

In order to protect some third-party packages that are installed from the CloudLinux repositories from being overwritten by other repositories, such as rpmforge or epel, you can do the following actions:

For CloudLinux 6.x:

Install the protectbase plugin:

# yum install yum-plugin-protectbase

Add the following lines in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf :

[cloudlinux-x86_64-server-6]
protect = 1

[cloudlinux-base]
protect = 1

For CloudLinux 7.x:

Install the protectbase plugin:

# yum install yum-plugin-protectbase

Add the following lines in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf :

[cloudlinux-x86_64-server-7]
protect = 1

[cloudlinux-base]
protect = 1