How come I can save my kernel 4.2.8-300 not to be cleaned. It's now last properly working kernel for me. Dnf update brings every now and then new kernel and cleans older ones. I'd like to save this working, so far, when I find new ones working. I know to set in dnf.conf installonly_limit=# higher, so helps while, but for setting it 10 is not wise :). Where is set that "rescue" kernel? Dnf does not clean that.
Any help?
Jarmo
Fedora 23 in use with XFCE
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:44:25 +0200 jarmo oh1mrr@nic.fi wrote:
How come I can save my kernel 4.2.8-300 not to be cleaned. It's now last properly working kernel for me. Dnf update brings every now and then new kernel and cleans older ones. I'd like to save this working, so far, when I find new ones working. I know to set in dnf.conf installonly_limit=# higher, so helps while, but for setting it 10 is not wise :). Where is set that "rescue" kernel? Dnf does not clean that.
Any help?
Jarmo
Fedora 23 in use with XFCE
If you install the dnf-plugins-core package, there is a plugin dnf.plugin.protected_packages. If you do a man on that, man 8 dnf.plugin.protected_packages it tells you to put the package you want protected in /etc/dnf/protected.d
I would put the kernel package you want to protect in there, and then try removing it with dnf. See if it tells you that it is protected. If it doesn't, don't press Y. :-) The man page also says that the currently running kernel is protected, but I have seen elsewhere that dnf does *not* protect the currently running kernel, and that this is per design.
If worst comes to worst, and you need to install an older kernel package, go to koji and download an rpm you know works, and force install it. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8
Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:17:55 -0700 stan stanl-fedorauser@vfemail.net kirjoitti:
If you install the dnf-plugins-core package, there is a plugin dnf.plugin.protected_packages. If you do a man on that,
I sit here now advised, Thank you Sir. I knew, somebody know..
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