On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 06:22:16PM -0500, Robert alleged: > The latest CentOS 5 kernel, 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 broke my box and I had to > drop back to 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 before I could play DVDs with either Xine > or mplayer. ( xine-0.99.5-1.el5.rf & mplayer-1.0-0.36.rc1try2.el5.rf ). > This is no big deal to me -- as long as I can make certain that the > older kernel doesn't go away. > If I understand the installonly plugin correctly, an entry of tokeep=4 > in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf will cause yum to leave the > working kernel in place through 2 more upgrades. Aside from setting > tokeep to an insanely large value, is there any way to insure that yum > will concern itself only with installing updates, allowing me to deal > with tossing the old stuff? Also, is my understanding of the "tokeep" > value in installonlyn.conf correct? The plugin won't remove a kernel that you are currently running. No worries. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071103/52bbb154/attachment-0005.sig>