Safe way to remove old kernels (except SMP)

[Paul Howarth]

nodata wrote:
>>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. :)
>>
> 
> 
> It would be good to get a component in bugzilla for the yum scripts, so
> far, no luck.

yum-utils has a component in the Fedora Extras section of 
bugzilla.redhat.com

Paul.