Mike C wrote:
> I have not seen any posts on the changed yum installonly facility.
It came up, but in the context of other threads -- so it'd be easy to
miss.
> 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
Yes. The default setting os to keep 2 kernels, to match the previous
default plugin behavior.
(The man page in 3.2.2-1.f7 says the default is 0 (which disables the
feature), but this is not correct. It'll be fixed in the next yum
package.)
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