A question for today

[Jim Cornette]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>Does any one know what the following installed rpms do since they
>prevent the removal of older kernels that the system says these
>installed rpms depend on:
>
>dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.2
>GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.2
>cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.12
>dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.12
>dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.10
>GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.9
>cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.2
>gnbd-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.35
>gnbd-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.45
>GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.14
>gnbd-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.43
>cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.9
>  
>
The easiest way to erase the older kernels is by using yum.

As an example:
yum erase kernel*2.6.12-1.1450_FC4
will get rid of kernel, kernel-devel and the other kernel specific rpms 
(GFS, dlm ....)

Jim

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