kernel updates via yum: keeping all old kernels?

[Terry Snyder]

On 7/7/06, Peter Teuben <teuben at astro.umd.edu> wrote:
>
> I was using yum to update the kernel, and although the first upgrade
> kept the original one, and gave me revision 2139, the one I did yesterday
> gave me 2145 but wiped out my original 2054.....   I didn't see an
> option to keep old ones, what is the official way to keep the old ones?
>
> - peter
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you have to edit the installonlyn.conf in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d directory.

example file
[main]
enabled=1
# this sets the number of package versions which are kept
tokeep=5

change enable= to 0 to keep all kernels
tokeep= is the number of prior kernels you would like to keep.  I
changed my system to keep 5 prior kernels.

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Terry Snyder Jr
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