On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 03:25 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 11:27 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > One of the consequences of allowing a kernel to be upgraded instead of > > installed would be that the currently-running kernel plus all of its > > modules would be deleted when the new kernel was added. So any operation > > that needed to load a module (e.g. starting ppp if the ppp modules > > weren't already loaded) would fail. There might be more significant > > issues too (has anyone tried removing their currently-running kernel to > > see what happens? not something I intend to try!). > > So I guess the pre-uninstall script should prevent the currently running > kernel from being removed. I am just getting tired of accumulating old > kernel even though I only use stock kernels and have them only to > satisfy RPM dependencies. If you've just got a stock kernel in to satisfy dependencies and you actually run a home-built custom kernel, can't you just add "exclude=kernel" to your yum.conf so that you don't get any kernel updates? That way you won't need to worry about removing them. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
