removing old Kernels

[Jim Cornette]

Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Greetings Brian ,
> 
> Brian Chadwick wrote:
>> rpm -e kernel-version
>>
>> you can get a list of kernels and their versions installed with "rpm 
>> -q kernel"
>>
>> instaed of doing "rpm -e kernel" ... you must append the version to 
>> the kernel name ...
>>
>> dont just go deleting files...use rpm
> I would gladly use rpm Brian , but answer for me please this question .
> 
> If i had manually installed the kernel ( you know the manual way with 
> make menuconfig ....)
> how am i going to use rpm  ?
> What is the correct parameter to give to rpm -e ?
> 
> 
> Kostas
> 
> 

Is it possible to run make rpm and get a compiled version of the kernel? 
I have not compiled a kernel in awhile. I seem to recall doing this on 
the vanilla kernel source.
After you compile the rpm, you could remove it with the usual rpm -e 
<kernel-custom> command.

You could try make rpm.

Jim


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