delete old kernel

wwp subscript at free.fr
Wed Nov 23 21:49:42 UTC 2005


Hello Rahul,


On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:22:59 +0530 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> >package-cleanup is not a known command in FC3, is it new to FC4 or did I
> >miss a package?
> >  
> >
> Its part of yum-utils in Fedora Extras which is enabled by default from 
> FC4 onwards. To enable the repository for FC3 see 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras. Fedora development version and FC5 
> (when available) has a installonlyn yum plugin written by Fedora 
> developers to only retain 2 kernels by default. Also the installer now 
> only installs either the SMP kernel or the uniprocessor kernel as 
> appropriate for the system. Earlier versions used to install both and 
> set the default as appropriate since the UP only provided a fallback for 
> SMP regression. Such regressions are now not common anymore to warrant that.

Hmm yum-utils is not part of the FC3/i386 repos at
fedoraproject.org/extras :-). Anyway, there is no problem, I was just asking
by curiosity, I don't really need that (I could do it by hand if necessary).
Thanks!


Regards,

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wwp




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