Excluded YUM updates

akust0m

• February 24, 2016 02:03

Hello, Coming from using Plesk for several years, I have to say that I find this very strange. Why does cPanel exclude so many applications from yum updates? Do these applications receive updates via another cPanel process? Is there a way to install applications via yum that would be matched by the exclude list but without actually removing the item from the exclude list in /etc/yum.conf? Chris

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  akust0m

  • February 24, 2016 07:34

  I found the section in WHM (Server Configuration > Update Preferences), I assume the "Operating System Package Updates" mean the OS plus other applications such as Apache, PHP etc..? I found out the way to install via yum and bypass the excludes:
  yum install httpd-tools --disableexcludes=all
  

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  cPanelKenneth

  • February 24, 2016 14:21

  In general if we are excluding a package, it's because we already provide it. Or we provide an equivalent.

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  syslint

  • February 24, 2016 14:26

  I found the section in WHM (Server Configuration > Update Preferences), I assume the "Operating System Package Updates" mean the OS plus other applications such as Apache, PHP etc..? I found out the way to install via yum and bypass the excludes:
  yum install httpd-tools --disableexcludes=all
  

  
  Don't install this package. This is your os provided package . But cpanel have its own apache and php . If you are using easyapache 3 please try to use the script /scripts/easyapache to compile apache and php or else you can use the whmcs interface too. Things are different in cpanel compared to plesk.

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  akust0m

  • February 25, 2016 04:51

  Thank you for the replies. So Apache and PHP don't get installed from the OS repository but from a cPanel repository? I wanted to download and use the Apache Benchmark tool which is included in the package "httpd-tools". What would be the best way to install this compared to how I did it above? I don't see an option to add it in EasyApache.

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  cPanelMichael

  • February 25, 2016 17:57

  Hello :) Yes, cPanel provides the packages for Apache and PHP. The following thread should help you install the Apache benchmark utility: Using Apache ab for benchmarking and gnuplot for graphing Thank you.

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