yum removing old kernels?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Mar 30 18:03:10 UTC 2006


On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:25:36PM +1030, Tim wrote:
 > 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. 

Yes. I even pointed to the variable in the file that you have to alter
several lines above.

 > (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread)

it isn't, as this is an fc5 feature.

		Dave

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