Disappearing Kernels during Yum update

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 22:13 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 08:10 -0400, Steven F. LeBrun wrote:
> > This brings up another question, why is installonly_limit set to 3 in
> > my yum.conf file when the manpage for yum.conf states that the default
> > is 0 (disable).  As I stated above, I have not changed any settings in
> > yum.conf.
> >  
> > This indicates that there is a discrepancy between the manpages and
> > the actual behavior.
> 
> Default for yum, when not configured otherwise.  Whereas Fedora has
> preset a preference for three in the yum.conf file set up by them.
> 
> Since I've had some problems with new kernels, in the past; and I've
> seen Fedora rapidly churn out several kernels, also in the past, I set
> my limit at 6 kernels.

So Fedora patches the default yum config files but doesn't patch the
manpage. Not good.

poc