[Yum] Delete older kernels?

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 19:16:17 UTC 2006


On 3/1/06, Peter C. Norton <spacey-yum at lenin.net> wrote:
> A nice feature for yum would be to remove kernels that are not the
> newest. Kernels and their associated modules are the only packages I
> know of that will typically live side-by-side with other versions, and
> once in a while an automatic clean-up would be a really good idea.
>
> Is there a mechanism to do this, or is this plugin territory?

There's a plugin that does this called 'installonlyn' basically, it
keeps n number of kernels around, where the default is 4 iirc.

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