Safe way to remove old kernels (except SMP)

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 08:23:52AM -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> >  sudo package-cleanup --oldkernels
> What a useful tip! This is really, really useful - except that it 
> ignores kernel-smp packages. Is this deliberate?

Probably not -- the program is quite new.

> Perhaps the script should be modified to see which of kernel or 
> kernel-smp is in use (using uname -a or something similar), and modify 
> the comparison in line 141 of the package-cleanup script accordingly.

Or look at /etc/sysconfig/kernel, yeah. Or just always check. In any case,
patches are accepted on the yum-devel list. :)


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