How to keep an old kernel?
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Mon Oct 14 20:11:56 UTC 2013
Frank Murphy wrote:
>> In any case, I have one 3.10 kernel in my three grub kernels.
>> I'm yum-updating with exclude=kernel* to avoid losing this kernel.
>> But I'm wondering if there is some way of telling yum
>> that I want to keep this kernel, but would like to update
>> the current kernel?
> This should cover this problem (James works on yum)
> http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum/2013-October/024030.html
This suggests
"yumdb set installonly keep kernel-nnn" does what you want.
I'm not quite sure what nnn is in this case.
I want to keep kernel-PAE-3.10.11-200.fc19.i686
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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