From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5) KHTML/3.5.0 (like Gecko) Description of problem: setting the onlyn to e.g 5 result in installation of 4 kernels. On installation of the 5th every already installed kernel but the running kernel in removed. I think this is due to the design of the break condition in the postresolve_hook function in installonlyn. The variable numleft will already be 0 before decrementing when on installation of the last kernel of the preselected set size. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.5.0.5 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. set to_keep=4 (/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf) 2. install a kernel (no 1, in adition to the running kernel) 3. install a kernel (no 2) 4. install a kernel (no 3) Actual Results: Only 2 kernels are installed (the running + the newest) Expected Results: The preset to_keep number of kernels present: only the oldest dropped when the "desired" count would have been exceeded. Additional info: reproducibility: this happens on istallation of every (n-1)'th kernel (with to_keep=n) - if I got the arithmetic right.
*** Bug 176705 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bump. This bug is still present in yum-2.5.1-5 . My /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf contains: [main] enabled=0 # this sets the number of package versions which are kept tokeep=5 Today's rawhide update would have wiped out all my backup kernels. ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: kernel i686 2.6.15-1.1948_FC5 development 13 M kernel-devel i686 2.6.15-1.1948_FC5 development 4.7 M ... Removing: kernel i686 2.6.15-1.1928_FC5 installed 33 M kernel i686 2.6.15-1.1917_FC5 installed 33 M kernel i686 2.6.15-1.1915_FC5 installed 33 M kernel-devel i686 2.6.15-1.1915_FC5 installed 14 M kernel-devel i686 2.6.15-1.1917_FC5 installed 14 M kernel-devel i686 2.6.15-1.1928_FC5 installed 13 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 2 Package(s) Update 113 Package(s) Remove 6 Package(s) Total download size: 189 M Is this ok [y/N]: n Exiting on user Command Complete!
Sorry, that "enabled=0" line should have read "enabled=1". I cut 'n pasted the file that I modified to let yum run the update without losing my kernels.
Hah, dumb bug. Fixed in CVS, will be in 2.5.3-2