On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 20:45 +0530, Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote: > On 12/10/09, James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 18:00 +0530, Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote: > >> I changed the "installonly_limit" to "1" from the default value "3" in > >> /etc/yum.conf, and yum blows up. > >> > >> # yum search boinc > >> Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit > >> Options Error: Error parsing '1': out of range integer value > > > > This is an error message, not what I'd usually term "blows up". > > I mean - can't install anything, can't search a package. It took me a > while to realize that the change made to the config file caused it as > I tried to use yum again after couple of days. Fair enough, as Seth said we should probably tell you want option is the problem :). > > What do you want to achieve by setting this value to 1? > > Ah, I realize that it would have the same effect as installonly_limit=0 ? No, 0 is "special" and means the same thing as "<off>". "1" would make it act like a normal package (old version removed as new version is installed) ... except the kernel package doesn't work if you do that, so we just disallow it. -- James Antill - james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.25 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
