Is yum.conf installonly_limit working properly ?

[rotru@xxxxxxxxxx]

According the the yum.conf man page, setting
installonly_limit = 0 will disable the feature, what I suppose that ALL
packages will be updated only.
I tested in Fedora 13 (3.2.27-4) and
RHEL6 beta (2.3.27-9) setting it to 0 and tried to update the kernel (had
only one kernel installed).

In both cases the kernels were installed
and not updated.

I could update the kernel only when
I added the option "installonlypkgs" in yum.conf and set it to
"nothing".

So, is there a minor bug in installonly_limit
when set to 0 or I must always set "installonlypkgs="


Another point: the yum.conf is outdated,
because it says
"installonlypkgs:  List of
packages that should only ever be installed, never updated.  Kernels
 in
           
                    particular
fall into this category. Defaults to kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem,
kernel-enter-
           
                    prise,
kernel-debug, kernel-unsupported."

and in the yum code (from /usr/lib/pythonXX/site-packages/yum/config.py):

installonlypkgs = ListOption(['kernel',
'kernel-bigmem', 'kernel-enterprise','kernel-smp', 'kernel-modules', 'kernel-debug',

           
                     
                  'kernel-unsupported',
'kernel-source', 'kernel-devel', 'kernel-PAE', 'kernel-PAE-debug'])



Regards

Rodrigo Trujillo
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