Re: yum 3.2.28 - Kernel update

James Antill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] writes:

> Like Tim said,  the "IBM Open Client Layer" has configured 
> "installonlypkgs=" in yum.conf. So, all packages will be updated only.
> Actually we have not set this for the OC Fedora ... only for OC RHEL witch 
> we have more control on what we provide and how to configure.
> We do not want users to have more than one kernel , to avoid mistakes or 
> confusion (really newbie users).
>
> I am not sure if this new Yum version will be released in RHEL6 (I guess 
> not). So, do you have ideia if would be a problem  I have 
> "installonlypkgs="
> configured and new yum version ?

 It isn't in 6.0, but the feature is likely to be in 6.1. To repeat:

1. What you are doing is a really bad idea, we go to a lot of trouble
to make multi-installable kernels for a reason.

2. If you want to continue doing it just set:

installonlypkgs=
protected_packages=

-- 
James Antill -- [email protected]
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.28
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching
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