how to remove packages from yum upgrade

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:16 -0500, Ken Schutte wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> >>>
> >>> It looks like your "yum remove" didn't work. Which kernel packages 
> >>> are actually still installed?
> >>>
> >>> $ rpm -qa '*kernel*'
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Immediately after the 'yum remove',
> >> # rpm -qa 'kernel*'
> >> kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> >> kernel-doc-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> >> kernel-smp-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> >> kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> >> kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> > 
> > 
> > That query won't pick up the offending modules. Note the asterisk 
> > *before* "kernel".
> > 
> > Paul.
> > 
> 
> Oh, sorry, you're right.  But, I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, 
> because actually now, I am not getting the errors about those packages. 
>   However, some things (the 2.6.14 kernel) are still not installed.  Now 
> that I look at it, it looks like it may be out of disk space.  (189MB of 
> 9.5GB available on /).  I guess an "all packages" install was a 
> mistake... I guess I'll just re-install and choose my packages...

Try a "yum clean packages" first; it might free up quite a lot of disk
space if you've applied lots of updates.

Paul.