Fedora 7 Test Update: yum-3.2.2-1.fc7

[Till Maas]

On Monday 23 July 2007 17:46:11 updates at fedoraproject.org wrote:

> - integrated installonlyn plugin functionality - new config option
> installonly_limit will remove old, non-running kernels from your system as
> you add more. In fedora, if you had disabled the installonlyn plugin you
> will have to disable it your /etc/yum.conf with 'installonly_limit = 0'.

from man yum.conf:

| installonlypkgs
|              List of packages that should only ever be installed, never
|              updated. Kernels in particular fall into this category. 
|              Defaults to ‘kernel, 
|              kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enterprise, kernel-debug,
|              kernel-unsupported’. 

Imho kernel-PAE and kernel-xen are here missing, also the installonlyn 
supported some more kernel packages, here are the suffixes:

 31     for s in ("bigmem", "enterprise", "smp", "hugemem", "PAE", "rt",
 32               "guest", "hypervisor", "xen0", "xenU", "xen", "debug"):

And will the new yum also keep the the regarding -devel packages installed?

Oh, when I look into the source 
(/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py) the default values differ in 
reality:

490     installonlypkgs = ListOption(['kernel', 'kernel-bigmem',
491             'kernel-enterprise','kernel-smp', 'kernel-modules', 'kernel-debug',
492             'kernel-unsupported', 'kernel-source', 'kernel-devel'])
493     installonly_limit = IntOption(2)
494     kernelpkgnames = 
ListOption(['kernel','kernel-smp', 'kernel-enterprise',
495             'kernel-bigmem', 'kernel-BOOT'])
496     exactarchlist = ListOption(['kernel', 'kernel-smp', 'glibc',
497             'kernel-hugemem', 'kernel-enterprise', 'kernel-bigmem',
498             'kernel-devel'])

Is it correct that kernelpkgnames and exactarchlist do not include every 
kernel package name that installonlypkgs does?

Regards,
Till