yum removing old kernels?
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Thu Mar 30 18:03:10 UTC 2006
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:25:36PM +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 01:35 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > It removes the currently running kernel from the list of
> > kernels to pick as potential candidates for removal, and iterates
> > through the remaining installed kernels removing the oldest, until it
> > reaches the maximum of whatever tokeep is set to
> > in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf
> >
> > because its first action is to ignore the currently running kernel,
> > there's always a safe kernel to boot back into.
>
> I do hope this is completely optional.
Yes. I even pointed to the variable in the file that you have to alter
several lines above.
> (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread)
it isn't, as this is an fc5 feature.
Dave
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