Saving more than two kernels

[Kam Leo]

On 4/18/07, Richard A. Hogaboom <hogaboom at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
> Is there some simple way of setting yum to save previous versions
> of the kernel so that I can go back easily when new kernels cause
> problems? more than the two default, say maybe 5?
>

Been answered many times on this list.  I went back through my cache
of GMail and found an old message regarding this subject. Here's a
snippet:

"As you know, FC4 doesn't have this.

In FC5, there is a /etc/yum/pluginconf.d directory and a
installonlyn.conf file:

[main]
enabled=1
# this sets the number of package versions which are kept
tokeep=2

Fairly obviously, changing 1 to 0 will disable the plugin, and changing
2 to (say) 5 will mean you keep that many more kernels."


By the way, you might make use of the FAQ at Fedora Forums or Google Search.

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