Kernel disinstallation during upgrade

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Mar 25 12:58:48 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:46 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
> 2006/3/25, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:
> > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 11:56 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
> > > I find that disinsallation of old kernels during upgrade from
> > > FC4-to-FC5 is a funny decision: I wonder what happens if for any
> > > reason you cannot boot with new kernel.
> > > And I do not agree with such a decision: any technical reason???
> > > --
> >
> > Check the notes on the yum plugin at
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/PackageNotes.
> >
> > Rahul
> >
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> 
> Tnx Rahul,
> 
> I understand that yum keeps latest two old kernels when you upgrade kernels.
> It is not true when you upgrade the complete package, as all my
> kernels were deleted (anfd this happened on two machines).
> It was only my opinion :-)

All your previous kernels were deleted? That shouldn't happen at all
obviously. Can you file a bug report on this in
http://bugzilla.redhat.com with the yum log file in /var/log/yum.log?

Rahul




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