How to keep a particular kernel version?

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Thu Feb 23 21:29:49 UTC 2012


On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, enclair wrote:

> 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 make sure you are running on the kernel you want to keep as yum 
won't remove the running kernel.

 	Michael Young


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