Safe way to remove old kernels (except SMP)

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

>> 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.

I've added this as bug 163606.

- Mike