Removing old kernels with yum?

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 22:54 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> 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.

OK then, now about building your own kernels as RPMs and installing them
using rpm rather than yum, so you'll get the right kernel versions into
the RPM database to satisfy dependencies, and only get kernel updates
when you do them?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>