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

To protect packages from CloudLinux repositories from being updated from 3rd party repositories like rpmforge, and to prevent such dependencies issues, do the following:

For CloudLinux 6.x

# yum install yum-plugin-protectbase

Edit /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf. Add:

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

[cloudlinux-base]
protect = 1

For CloudLinux 7.x

# yum install yum-plugin-protectbase

Edit /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf Add:

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

[cloudlinux-base]
protect = 1