On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Danny Ciarniello wrote:
When I do a yum update I get
Installing:
kernel x86_64 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 updates 16 M
...
Removing:
kernel x86_64 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 installed 81 M
Since when does yum remove old kernels automatically? Seems a bit dangerous
to me. What if there's a problem and one needs a fallback?
Dan.
See /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf.
One old one is always left (tokeep=2).
But because only kernel RPMs are managed, yum updates to the kerenl won't
work if you use external modules like nvidia or ntfs. Yum will try to
remove the old kernel and dependencies of the unremoved modules will force
it to abort. Keeping the proliferation of kernels under control isn't a
bad idea, but it still needs some work.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
