Hi, On Fri, December 31, 2010 12:35 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I've mentioned this before. With Fedora 14 and previously with SuSE, > whenever I get a kernel update, the older kernel packages are > automatically removed so only the 3 most recent kernels (and modules) > are installed. Actually, while only 3 kernels are installed on my system > (I also have 3 old module directories from F13 with no content). > > However on Ubuntu, (10.10) I actually have 5 kernels installed. > > While this does not really cause any problems except possibly on an > upgrade, I was wondering if there is a parameter somewhere that > specifies the number of previous kernels. Certainly one can manage this > through yum (Fedora) and dpkg (Ubuntu). On fedora, /etc/sysconfig/kernel > tells the system that the latest kernel should be the default. The > Fedora and Suse strategy to keep the previous 2 kernels seems to be a > reasonable strategy. Does Ubuntu (Debian) just have a different strategy > with a different number of prior kernels, or do they just keep adding on > when there is a new kernel update.
On Fedora /etc/yum.conf has the following setting: installonly_limit=3 This is where the '3' comes from. -derek > -- > Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> > Boston Linux and Unix > PGP key id: 537C5846 > PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss