Removing old kernels using dnf leaves files in /boot

[Germán Racca]

On 08/20/2015 12:02 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Because I run my linux installation on "real" hardware as well as
> using VirtualBox I need manual control when old kernels (which have
> vbox extensions) are removed.
> Recently I tried to remove old kernel packages with dnf ("dnf remove
> kernel-4.1.3-201.fc22"), yet the files contained in this package are
> still in /boot:
>
> [root at user-pc boot]# ls -la /boot/vmlinuz-4.1.3-201.fc22.x86_64
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 5968568 Jul 29 21:59 /boot/vmlinuz-4.1.3-201.fc22.x86_64
>
> Any idea what could be going wrong here?
>
> Thank you in advance, Clemens

Because those files belong to the package kernel-core. kernel is a meta 
package and contains no files.

HTH,
Germán.