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

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:57:17 +1000 david walcroft <d_j_w46(a)bigpond.net.au&gt; 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

Can someone tell me which file I can find installonlypkgs in. I cannot find it through 'locate'