[Yum] update kernel: Install versus update

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 26 10:16:35 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:05 +0200, Alois Steindl wrote:
> Hello,
> I am running 3 Fedora Core 6 systems on 3 PCs, all configured quite 
> similarly. On two of the machines yum removes the old kernel, when it 
> installs a new one, on the third one it doesn't remove the old kernel.
> (Unfortunately that's just the one with the smallest /boot partition, so 
> I have to deinstall the old kernels by hand, but it's certainly not a 
> big issue.)
> Is there any switch or whatever to tell the third machine to behave like 
> the other ones? I couldn't find any difference in the configuration files.

Do you see a "Loading "installonlyn" plugin" when you run yum on the 3rd
machine?

-sv





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