Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jon,
>> installonlyn is part of SL 4.5, it is called yum-installonlyn, so you 
>> only have to do
>>  yum install yum-installonlyn
>> and it will be installed and turned on.  The default n is 2.
>>
>> installonlyn was taken out of the generic yum-utils that comes from 
>> yum. (nothing to do with the upstream vendor)  Since I didn't know why 
>> it was taken out, I left it out.
> 
> I see what you mean now.  Doh! Bangs head against wall.
> 
> However if you look at 
> http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/yum-utils/yum-utils-0.3.1.tar.gz 
> it doesn't have installonlyn in it, nor does their srpm.  Looking at the 
> SL4x srpm changelog we have:
> 
> * Fri Nov 18 2005 Panu Matilainen <[log in to unmask]> 0.3.1-1.SL.2
> - created fastestmirror-asyncore from fastestmirror
> - added fastestmirror-meta
> - added installonlyn
> - Gave a default configuration for versionlock
> 
> which has been done in part by re-making the yum-utils-0.3.1.tar.gz to 
> include exta files!  I believe that that is bad-rpm style if not just 
> utterly confusing.
> 
> If the extra files had just been *added* obviously to the yum-utils srpm 
> then it would be clear that they were never part of the 'official' 
> yum-utils distribution.
> 
> Maybe we should start a yum-useful-plugins collection.... :-)
> 
>  -- Jon

*smacks own head on wall*
Doh ... yep, memory is returning.  I guess I have an excuse in that I was sick 
when I wrote that.  Just don't get enough oxygen to the brain when you're all 
stuffed up.
If it's still working, and according to you, it is, I'll get it into the next 
SL 5 release.
Just out of curiosity, since I don't use it, what do you usually set for the 
default number.  In the past, I had it set to 2.  Is that reasonable, or would 
people rather have it higher? like 3 or 4?
Troy
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