Bug 253944
Summary: | Can't control number of kernels to keep | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | David A. De Graaf <dad> |
Component: | yum | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 7 | CC: | james.antill, matteo |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2007-08-23 15:19:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
David A. De Graaf
2007-08-23 02:57:21 UTC
You can change the number kept by modifying installonly_limit in /etc/yum.conf. And by keeping 2, we keep the currently running one which is good enough for getting more kernels as well as a new one, so it's a very reasonable default. Thank you for pointing out this apparently new documentation. I had only found that /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf had gone away, but not that it had been replaced. A default of 2 is dangerously optimistic. I have manually installed 4 kernels on one machine trying to overcome bugzilla #254007, but only the oldest kernel allows the machine to boot. The next yum update would wipe me out if only the newest 2 were kept. I will set installonly_limit to a more generous level. |