Robert wrote: > The latest CentOS 5 kernel, 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 broke my box and I had to > drop back to 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 before I could play DVDs with either Xine > or mplayer. ( xine-0.99.5-1.el5.rf & mplayer-1.0-0.36.rc1try2.el5.rf ). > This is no big deal to me -- as long as I can make certain that the > older kernel doesn't go away. > If I understand the installonly plugin correctly, an entry of tokeep=4 > in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf will cause yum to leave the > working kernel in place through 2 more upgrades. Aside from setting > tokeep to an insanely large value, is there any way to insure that yum > will concern itself only with installing updates, allowing me to deal > with tossing the old stuff? Also, is my understanding of the "tokeep" > value in installonlyn.conf correct? Yes ... you can just turn that plugin off set enabled=0 in installonlyn.conf and it will never delete a kernel. You could also add this to the CentOS-Base.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ in the [Base] and [updates] sections: exclude=kernel kernel-headers kernel-devel kernel-PAE* kernel-xen* then you will have to manually upgrade your kernels ... if you wanted that. I will test the DVD playback issues and see if I can duplicate them. Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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