installonlypkgs

[david walcroft]

Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:57:17 +1000
> david walcroft <d_j_w46 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
>   
>> david walcroft wrote:
>>     
>>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>       
>>>> david walcroft wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Can someone tell me which file I  can find installonlypkgs in.
>>>>> I cannot find it through 'locate'
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> It is a configuration option in yum.conf. Not a separate package.
>>>>
>>>> Rahul
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Thanks for that Rahul,I'll try 'installonlypkgs=4' in yum.conf.
>>>
>>>  david
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Sorry about that Rahul,I should have read the man page better,
>> I've tried 'installonly_4' but yum cannot parse yum.conf with this
>> option.What is the correct way tell yum to hold 4 kernels.
>>     
>
> Hello, David
> My yum.conf has the following line:
> installonly_limit=2
>
> I Google'd for installonly_limit=2 and I found the following:
> http://www.accessgrid.org/node/1016
>
> The section under the heading "More than 2 kernels when yum updating"
> seems to talk about exactly what you want to do.  So, I would assume
> that you would need a line in your "yum.conf" file something like this:
> installonly_limit=4
>
> Steven P. Ulrick
>
>   
Thanks Steven just what I was looking for

  david