On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:55 AM, fred smith <fredex at 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. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"