On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:22 PM, James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Yeah, that was the intention ;-) Thanks for the answers! > -- > 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 > -- Cheers, Rajeesh http://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
