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