On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 20:45 +0530, Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote:
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.
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.
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