Removing old kernels with yum?

[John Summerfied]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 03:57 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> 
>>I have been using "rpm -qa|grep kernel" and "rpm -e $kernel" for a while
>>but I wonder if yum can be configured to treat kernels as normal
>>packages, e.g. "installonlypkgs=" in yum.conf (which does not work).
> 
> 
> I believe this is actually hard-coded in yum.
> 
> One of the consequences of allowing a kernel to be upgraded instead of
> installed would be that the currently-running kernel plus all of its
> modules would be deleted when the new kernel was added. So any operation
> that needed to load a module (e.g. starting ppp if the ppp modules
> weren't already loaded) would fail. There might be more significant
> issues too (has anyone tried removing their currently-running kernel to
> see what happens? not something I intend to try!).

I've done it accidentally (on Debian I think). No great drama as all 
needed modules were loaded. However, I did reinstall the kernel, JIC:-)




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