Kernels being uninstalled automatically

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Thu Mar 2 01:16:49 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 19:11 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> Is that deliberate?
> I assume so, but want to be able to NOT have it happen if I choose to
> keep the older kernels for whatever reason.

Yes, installonlyn plugin keeps n number of old kernels (including the
last kernel you ran)

> This policy only keeps 2 kernel versions around, and can break a system
> if the latest (before the update) had problems for a user and an earlier
> version is in use.

Almost. It does not remove the running kernel. (if I remember correctly)

> How do I turn that off?  
> How would I change the number of older kernels to keep around? 

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf

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