There's no way to stop deactivation of the parcel, because when you enable CM server parcel management, the CM server doesn't have that parcel activated and thus the CM agent must deactivate the parcel.   However, you can short-circuit un-distribution and re-distribution by creating a ".dont_delete" file inside the parcel directory.  The agent will go through the motions of undistributing the parcel, but it won't actually delete the directory.  When you go to distribute the parcel again, it will re-distribute, but the agent will skip the download step. ... View more