Removing old kernels using dnf leaves files in /boot

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi,

Because I run my linux installation on "real" hardware as well as
using VirtualBox I need manual control when old kernels (which have
vbox extensions) are removed.
Recently I tried to remove old kernel packages with dnf ("dnf remove
kernel-4.1.3-201.fc22"), yet the files contained in this package are
still in /boot:

[root@user-pc boot]# ls -la /boot/vmlinuz-4.1.3-201.fc22.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 5968568 Jul 29 21:59 /boot/vmlinuz-4.1.3-201.fc22.x86_64

Any idea what could be going wrong here?

Thank you in advance, Clemens

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 08/20/2015 12:02 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Because I run my linux installation on "real" hardware as well as
> using VirtualBox I need manual control when old kernels (which have
> vbox extensions) are removed.
> Recently I tried to remove old kernel packages with dnf ("dnf remove
> kernel-4.1.3-201.fc22"), yet the files contained in this package are
> still in /boot:
>
> [root@user-pc boot]# ls -la /boot/vmlinuz-4.1.3-201.fc22.x86_64
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 5968568 Jul 29 21:59 /boot/vmlinuz-4.1.3-201.fc22.x86_64
>
> Any idea what could be going wrong here?
>
> Thank you in advance, Clemens

Because those files belong to the package kernel-core. kernel is a meta 
package and contains no files.

HTH,
Germán.

[Clemens Eisserer]

> Because those files belong to the package kernel-core. kernel is a meta
> package and contains no files.

A that explains it, thanks a lot :)

Best regards, Clemens

[Martin Cigorraga]

Hello Clemens,

Adding to what Germán already said you might be interested in checking the
dnf configuration file, /etc/dnf/dnf.conf -- and look for this paramenter:
installonly_limit=2

To learn about it: $ man dnf.conf

Cheers

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 4:00 PM Clemens Eisserer 
wrote:
> > Because those files belong to the package kernel-core. kernel is a meta
> > package and contains no files.
>
> A that explains it, thanks a lot :)
> Best regards, Clemens
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