Description of problem: pkgpolicy in yum.conf is not documented in online manual Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.0.1-5.el5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man yum.conf 2. find pkgpolicy Actual results: I can not find pkgpolicy section of the man. Expected results: I should find pkgpolicy section of the man. Additional info: Currently pkgpolicy=newest is set as a default. This is sufficient for most of the user. But from customer support engineer's point of view, we sometimes want to download older version of RPMs or debuginfo-RPM. So that's why I would like to know what else I can set in this parapeters other than "newest". This is the reason why I want to read the man page. I expect there is a parameter such as pkgpolicy=all (all generations)
pkgpolicy actually doesn't exist any more; the fact that it's still in the config is a remnant of days gone past. I've gone ahead and nuked it to avoid confusion in the future.
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Thanks for the answer. I found one-line comment that pkgpolicy option was removed on March/2005. One more minor error that I found in yum.conf manual is in "keepcache" section. It is said "Default value is 1.(keep files)". But on RHEL5 and Fedora Core 5, the default value of keepcache is set to 0.
This has been removed in the RHEL-5.2 configuration file.
Moving to VERIFIED: On clean install of yum package there is no 'pkgpolicy' option in the /etc/yum.conf.
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