new installonly arrangement in yum for F7

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:20 +0000, Mike C wrote:
> I have not seen any posts on the changed yum installonly facility.
> 
> On updating today after a few days away I see that there is a new integrated
> installonly facility in yum (yum-3.2.2-1.fc7)
> 
> Previously I had changed tokeep=4 in the file 
> 
> /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf
> 
> in order to retain 4 kernels after updates.
> 
> This file has now been saved as /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf.rpmsave
> and the original filename is no longer there.
> 
> Am I correct in thinking that in order to keep 4 kerneles now
> it is necessary to add a line to the file: /etc/yum.conf
> with :
> installonly_limit = 4
> 
> ??
> 
That is not what happpened on my
machine. /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf is still ther
but /etc/yum.conf has an added line #installonly_limit = 8
I had tokeep=8.
So it is not clear that both lines do not work in yum-3.2.2-1.fc7


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