On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 20:02 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > On 5/6/07, david walcroft <david_walcroft@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Martin Marques wrote: > > > I just finished upgrading the kernels in my FC6 with yum and I see this > > > at the end: > > > > > > Removed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 > > > Installed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 > > > > > > Now, why did it remove does kernel? Shouldn't it just install the new > > > ones and leave old ones there? > > > > > For what it's worth my system at /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf > > is "tokeep=4" but the last kernel update only left 2 kernels in boot.I > > have no idea how to fix this. > > If you still have the packages for the removed kernels "rpm -ivh > kernel-2.6.xxx." as either the superuser or root will reinstall them. > If you don't have the packages locating them will be a hassle since FC > mirrors keep only the latest two. (A request to the list might work.) > If you do not want this problem to reoccur edit installonlyn.conf and > disable the plugin. > > In any event you should file a bug report. Something I have not seen in the discussions here about "keeping old kernels" is that there have been cases where an upgrade of some "other package" has a "requires" of a certain level of kernel, and the existence of a previous kernel has prevented it's installation. Trying to remember the specific occurrences, but didn't udev do that a couple of times. But, consequently, there are other reasons to keep the number of installed kernels fewer rather than greater.... --Rob
