On 4/18/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 4/18/07, Richard A. Hogaboom <hogaboom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there some simple way of setting yum to save previous versions > of the kernel so that I can go back easily when new kernels cause > problems? more than the two default, say maybe 5? > Been answered many times on this list. I went back through my cache of GMail and found an old message regarding this subject. Here's a snippet: "As you know, FC4 doesn't have this. In FC5, there is a /etc/yum/pluginconf.d directory and a installonlyn.conf file: [main] enabled=1 # this sets the number of package versions which are kept tokeep=2 Fairly obviously, changing 1 to 0 will disable the plugin, and changing 2 to (say) 5 will mean you keep that many more kernels." By the way, you might make use of the FAQ at Fedora Forums or Google Search.
The responses were to change the value of "tokeep". You can also change "enable=1" to "enable=0" or totally remove the installonlyn plugin. (Go to the bottom of http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/en/sn-yum-customizing.html for details.) After a quick exchange with the Red Hat QA/developer, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237203 , I realized the default installation of the installonlyn plugin is the problem. RHEL installations need the plugin. Fedora Core users do not. Why? Because the lifespan of a FC distro is short (approximately 18 months). The number of kernel updates within that time is not large. The majority of FC'ers will have upgraded to the next FC release before their disk runs out of space from kernel installs. Just disable or remove installonlyn. You are better off without it.
