[CentOS] Eliminate old kernels
Matt Hyclak
hyclak at math.ohiou.edu
Wed Nov 9 16:13:23 UTC 2005
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:04:34AM -0500, Josh Kelley enlightened us:
> > Is there any commad for eliminate old kernels from grub instead of edit
> > manually grub.conf and eliminate the files from /boot?
>
> Yum-utils includes a script called package-cleanup. Running
> "package-cleanup --oldkernels" will take care of this for you, without
> having to check kernel versions by hand.
>
Good to know.
> You can get yum-utils from
> http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/yum-utils/. It's also part of
> Fedora Extras; since it's a noarch package, you could probably just
> download the RPM from there and install it on a CentOS 4 box, although
> I haven't tried this.
>
Only if the versions of python are the same.
Rebuilding the src.rpm is probably better. Karanbir might also have it in
his repository at http://centos.karan.org.
Matt
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