I originally asked this as part of another message in May, but maybe no-one read past my driveling to this part -- well no-one replied anyway... :-) --start-quote-- BTW is the installonlyn yum plugin available (as part of some package somewhere)? http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/installonlyn.py # A plugin for yum which only leaves n 'kernel' packages installed instead # of infinitely doing installonly I found a thread on a Centos mailing list suggesting it was part of yum-utils but that was for Centos-4 anyway. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2006-August/002361.html FC 5 and 6 appear to have this functionality included in the base yum package and so does the yum in TUV-el5 if you see what I mean. $ rpm -qlp yum-3.0.1-5.el5.src.rpm | grep installonlyn installonlyn.py I don't know if it is *enabled* by default in those releases though! --end-quote-- Anyway after that I noticed that SL45 (at least) has yum-installonlyn mentioned in the releasenotes -- built as part of yum-utils I think. I think I understand how it got dropped (not part of SL's yum, but is in TUV's yum, so missing from their yum-utils), though I may have missed something more subtle. Anyway to cut a long story slightly shorter I gave in and made the trivial rpm for it and it does seem to work... $ yum update ... Loading "installonlyn" plugin ... ============================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================ Installing: kernel i686 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 sl-testedbits 12 M kernel-devel i686 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 sl-testedbits 4.5 M Updating: kernel-headers i386 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 sl-testedbits 726 k xorg-x11-xfs i386 1:1.0.2-4 sl-testedbits 68 k xorg-x11-xfs-utils i386 1:1.0.2-4 sl-testedbits 27 k Removing: kernel i686 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5 installed 34 M kernel i686 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 installed 34 M kernel-devel i686 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5 installed 14 M kernel-devel i686 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 installed 14 M ... without something like this my /boot would be full after another 10-15 kernel updates... $ rpm -qil yum-installonlyn Name : yum-installonlyn Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.92 Vendor: (none) Release : 1.sl5x Build Date: Thu Jul 19 00:30:49 2007 Install Date: Thu Jul 19 00:33:01 2007 Build Host: deluxe.damtp.cam.ac.uk Group : Development/Tools Source RPM: yum-installonlyn-0.92-1.sl5x.src.rpm Size : 7591 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu Jul 19 00:32:10 2007, Key ID 04a6250b6173bb82 URL : http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/installonlyn.py Summary : Yum plugin to only keep n 'kernel' packages Description : A plugin for yum which only leaves n 'kernel' packages installed instead of infinitely doing installonly /etc/yum/pluginconf.d /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf /usr/lib/yum-plugins /usr/lib/yum-plugins/installonlyn.py /usr/lib/yum-plugins/installonlyn.pyc /usr/lib/yum-plugins/installonlyn.pyo Maybe it will be of use to some others... -- Jon Peatfield, Computer Officer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge Mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/