Can I delete *FC3* files from my FC4 system?

[Andy Green]

Nat Gross wrote:

> On a box that was upgraded from FC3 to FC4, I find quite a few FC3
> folders in /lib/modules and files in /boot.
> Can I just delete these?

Ah best not to delete them directly.  I did this many months ago and
discovered a bug in rpm which subsequently was unable to delete the
kernel packages they belong to in a reasonable time.  I ended up writing
a script to put back a tree of fake files from the package manifest so
rpm could remove the package happily :-)

# rpm -qa | grep kernel | sort

then nuke the older ones, eg, like this

# rpm -q kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4

This should take out the files, it may leave an empty subdir in
/lib/modules IIRC.

-Andy
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