new installonly arrangement in yum for F7

[Todd Zullinger]

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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