On 12/31/2010 12:46 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > 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. Thanks Derek. That is exactly what I was looking for. Ubuntu/Debian most likely has a similar parameter.
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