Why does yum throw error "Options Error parsing installonly_limit = 1 out of range integer value" ?

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Issue

  • Why does yum throw an error below while updating system ?
Options Error: Error parsing "installonly_limit = '1'": out of range integer value
  • What is installonly_limit option of yum.conf ?
  • How is it useful ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7
  • yum

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