No kernel removal by yum

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 21:14:02 UTC 2007


On 6/7/07, stan <stanl at cox.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:24:43 +0100
> "Paul Smith" <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear All
> >
> > Is it possible to program yum so that no kernel is removed when a new
> > one is installed?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Paul
> >
> FRom a previous message:
>
> From: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr>
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: How to maintain backup kernels?
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 17:37:13 +0200
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>
> On Thursday 31 May 2007 16:56, Paul Erickson wrote:
> > The latest FC6 kernel update is having problems with the Nvidia
> > drivers, so I am running on the
> > previous one. How can I maintain more than one backup kernel? I have
> > tried finding the answer via
> >  google, but so far, no luck.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > cheers, Paul - VA7NT - email: va7nt at telus.net
>
> In a text editor as root go to /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf .
>
> Change "enabled=1" to "enabled=0" . Henceforth all kernels will be
> saved. You should be able to specify the number of kernels to save
> using "tokeep=x", but I saw that someone had a problem with that, so
> I'd just change "enabled=" to 0
>
> Nigel.

Another sneakly yum enhancement. The installonlyn plug-in is no longer
removable. In FC-6 you could do a "yum remove installonlyn". Not any
more.




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