On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 07:35 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
Just as a side issue, you mentioned that kernel updates remove the older kernel, I have noticed the same thing and I have also had Smartpm tell me that a new kernel can't coexist with the previous kernel. Is there any way to change this, like is done in other distros, as this sort of functionality annoys me, from the point of view that I have often been in the situation where my system refused to boot from a new kernel because of a kernel panic, so I had to fall back to the previous kernel to boot so I could then remove the new kernel and wait for a further kernel update to fix the issues. I would like to make the decision of how many kernels I want to keep rather than the distro forcing what I can do.
I have three kernels installed (current, previous and previous previous :-) which I think is the default with yum though it can be changed by editing installonly_limit in /etc/yum.conf. If smartpm says that kernels can't coexist it's clearly wrong.
poc