Another yumex related question.

[Gene Heskett]

Scott R. Godin wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:39 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> This one should be for Sven.  By poking around in my 
>> /lib/modules/kernel-version/extras/ directories, I've apparently come to 
>> the conclusion that my disappearing kmod-ntfs (and kmod-ndiswrapper) 
>> installs are caused by the same mechanism as the default kernel update, 
>> wherein only one older kernel is kept while all older kernels are removed.
>>
>> There was a fix to make it keep the last 5 kernels which I applied, 
>> unforch I can't now find the file where that particular variable is set.
>>
>> My question then is, where do I set a similar keepit variable for 
>> kmod-ntfs and kmod-ndiswrapper?   Last nights reboot to a known good 
>> working kernel only to find it had been silently emasculated by yum was 
>> a very unpleasant experience.
>>
> 
> it's part of yum's "installonlyn" plugin.
> 
> cat /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf
> [main]
> tokeep = 4
> enabled = 1
> 
> i.e. keep 4 previous kernels around. :)
> 
> 
Thanks.

My enabled = 0 is now a 1, and tokeep was already at 5.
Does this effect stuffs other than the kernel now with enabled = 1?

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Cheers, Gene