yum removing old kernels?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Mar 30 07:55:36 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 01:35 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> It removes the currently running kernel from the list of
> kernels to pick as potential candidates for removal, and iterates
> through the remaining installed kernels removing the oldest, until it
> reaches the maximum of whatever tokeep is set to
> in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf
> 
> because its first action is to ignore the currently running kernel,
> there's always a safe kernel to boot back into.

I do hope this is completely optional.  Some people have custom kernels,
and neither age nor the number of kernels are a determining factor in
which should get removed.

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