Re: reading installonlypkgs config option?

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 11:33 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 11:26 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Background: I have hunch that the weird behavior where $1 == 0 in rpm
> > scripts on *upgrade* in some cases (causing all sorts of brokenness when it
> > happens) is related to transactions which involve kernel upgrades, and
> > specifically because those transactions involve installonlypkgs.
> > 
> > To help test this theory and also as a workaround in case I'm right, I'd
> > like to change our auto-update cron script to run `yum update
> > {installonlypkgs}` before the general `yum update` command. I could of
> > course hardcode a list of things for {installonlypkgs}, but it seemed nicer
> > to query for it.
> > 
> > Is there a particular reason the yum shell 'config' command only accepts a
> > certain subset of config values? Could "installonlypkgs" be added to that
> > list? That'd be handy.
> > 
> > Or, is there some other way I'm missing? Thanks!
> 
> there's no reason. the ones implemented were the ones that seemed most
> likely to be needed.
> 

and another way to do this would be to have a separate config file that
you call for that update.

-sv