On 12/10/09, James Antill <james(a)fedoraproject.org> 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.
> PackageKit gave me a better traceback:
This is just more text to say the same thing, 1 is an invalid argument.
> I changed the value to 0, 2, 3 etc, all of them resulting in a working
> yum environment. Is it a known issue, or worth filing a bug?
> Yum version is yum-3.2.25-1.fc12.noarch
Maybe3 a better question is:
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 ?
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Cheers,
Rajeesh
http://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com