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

Issue

How can I protect some 3rd party RPM repositories from being overwritten by updates?

Environment

CloudLinux OS 6(h)/7(h)/8
cPanel/Plesk/DirectAdmin/No panel

Solution

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