[CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

[Keith Keller]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 01:44:18PM -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> on 09:24 Wed 09 Mar, Simon Matter (simon.matter at invoca.ch) wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, only that reinstall doesn't exist in EL4 :)
> 
> It doesn't?
> 
>     rpm -Uvh <packagelist>

Creating the package list is what yum does automatically; using rpm
directly means creating a list of URLs or downloading rpms
individually.  It's the same end result, but yum is a lot easier
if you know only the package names (and not specific URLs and/or
versions of packages).  (And it may not be the same end result if you
don't get the versions correct.)

I also read this snippet from man yum:

 reinstall
        Will reinstall the identically versioned package as is currently
        installed.  This does not work for "installonly" packages,  like
        Kernels.

So maybe yum reinstall wouldn't fully fix the OP's problem after all?

--keith


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