How to keep a particular kernel version?

enclair wifienclair at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 18:51:49 UTC 2012


Yes I could do that, thank you.
(However, it must be set to "keep" I think, not "0", according to man
yum.conf).


Le 23 février 2012 19:13, T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:07 AM, enclair <wifienclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have these three kernels: 3.1.9, 3.2.5 and 3.2.6
> > There is a new kernel in -updates (3.2.7).
> > If I update to the new kernel, yum will want to remove 3.1.9.
> > Is there a possibility to set up yum to keep the older kernel (3.1.9)
> and to
> > remove 3.2.5 instead (the middle one)?
> > (There is the possibility to remove the middle kernel before each
> updates,
> > but it's not really convenient).
>
> You could change the installonly_limit in /etc/yum.conf.  If you set
> it to 0, yum won't remove any kernels when a new one is installed.
> You could then remove unwanted ones manually at your convenience.
>
> -T.C.
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