Re: [CentOS] yum remove <old kernel pkgs> -- wants to remove a ton of stuff

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:55 AM, fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:

I've got a Centos 4 box at work, where I noticed a pile of old kernels lying around and no longer needed.

I did "rpm -qa | grep -y kernel > list" then edited the list to remove from it the newer kernels, then "yum remove `cat list`". Yum has come up with a list of 71 packages it wants to remove, even though there were only 33 kernel-related RPMs in the list. this doesn't seem right to me, as it is trying to remove a bunch of KDE files, net-snmp stuff, freeradius, etc. I show the entire list below.

would need to see list to know whats causing the problem... without that we are shooting in the wind.