Removing old kernels with yum?

Thomas Zehetbauer thomasz at hostmaster.org
Mon May 30 20:54:26 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 17:40 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> If you've just got a stock kernel in to satisfy dependencies and you
> actually run a home-built custom kernel, can't you just add
> "exclude=kernel" to your yum.conf so that you don't get any kernel
> updates? That way you won't need to worry about removing them.

That's the second best choice because it will cause missing dependency
errors from time to time.

Tom

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