Kernel remove via yum

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 04:10 -0500, mylar wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 17:43 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 17:40 -0600, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 06:08:51PM -0500, mylar wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > Now that I have successfully upgraded my kernel via yum can I remove the
> > > > old kernel via yum ? In other words can I simply do a 
> > > > 
> > > > "# yum remove "kernel-2.6-18"
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I guess that will work.  I just use rpm:
> > > 
> > >   rpm -e kernel-2.6-18
> > > 
> > > That said, I always keep the previous kernel around in case some
> > > disaster strikes the new kernel, which, of course, hasn't happened,
> > > ... yet.
> > 
> > Heheheheheh!
> > 
> > > > or are there any additional steps I need to take care to do ?
> > 
> > Normally yum only keeps two versions of each kernel anyway.  That's
> > what the "tokeep=2" does in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf.
> > If you want to keep more, then change it to whatever you want.
> 
> OK thanks... I didn't know that. For now I'll just leave it as is.
> There's enough room and I don't mind keeping the old version around.

'Tis always a good thing to keep at least one old kernel around...just
in case something evil happens.

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