Can't update kernel via yum update

[Timothy Murphy]

Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote:

> BTW .... am I seeing this correctly (?). Look at the difference in
> size! A reduction from 61M to 17M. Note that I am complaining, but
> what happened ?

I think this always happens.
I take it that the size of the package to be removed
is much larger because the original rpm has been expanded
during its installation.

A different point - the problem in your original query
seemed to arise because yum wanted to remove a kernel
required by a package.

I wonder if it would have solved the problem
if you had asked for the old kernel to stay,
eg by setting tokeep=4 in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf ?


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