fred smith 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. > > This certainly does NOT seem right to me. Anyone care to enlighten me? > > Given that it wants to do this, I'm thinking I'd be better off to just do > "rpm -e `cat list`" instead. > > Fred > ============================================================================= > Package Arch Version Repository Size > ============================================================================= > Removing: > kernel i686 2.6.9-55.0.12.EL installed 28 M > kernel i686 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL installed 28 M > kernel i686 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL installed 27 M > kernel i686 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL installed 27 M > kernel i686 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL installed 27 M > kernel i686 2.6.9-55.EL installed 28 M > kernel i686 2.6.9-42.EL installed 27 M > kernel i686 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL installed 27 M > kernel i686 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL installed 28 M > kernel-devel i686 2.6.9-55.0.12.EL installed 12 M > kernel-devel i686 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL installed 12 M > kernel-devel i686 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL installed 11 M > kernel-devel i686 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL installed 11 M > kernel-devel i686 2.6.9-42.EL installed 11 M > kernel-devel i686 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL installed 12 M > kernel-devel i686 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL installed 11 M > kernel-devel i686 2.6.9-55.EL installed 12 M > kernel-devel i686 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL installed 11 M > kernel-hugemem-devel i686 2.6.9-55.EL installed 12 M > kernel-hugemem-devel i686 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL installed 12 M > kernel-hugemem-devel i686 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL installed 12 M > kernel-hugemem-devel i686 2.6.9-55.0.12.EL installed 12 M > kernel-smp i686 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL installed 29 M > kernel-smp i686 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL installed 29 M > kernel-smp i686 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL installed 29 M > kernel-smp i686 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL installed 29 M > kernel-smp i686 2.6.9-55.EL installed 29 M > kernel-smp i686 2.6.9-55.0.12.EL installed 29 M > kernel-smp-devel i686 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL installed 12 M > kernel-smp-devel i686 2.6.9-55.0.12.EL installed 12 M > kernel-smp-devel i686 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL installed 12 M > kernel-smp-devel i686 2.6.9-55.EL installed 12 M > kernel-utils i386 1:2.4-13.1.105 installed 1.6 M > Removing for dependencies: > freeradius i386 1.0.1-3.RHEL4.5 installed 3.8 M > freeradius-mysql i386 1.0.1-3.RHEL4.5 installed 6.2 k > freeradius-postgresql i386 1.0.1-3.RHEL4.5 installed 6.8 k > freeradius-unixODBC i386 1.0.1-3.RHEL4.5 installed 7.0 k > hpoj i386 0.91-9 installed 799 k > hpoj-devel i386 0.91-9 installed 47 k > kdeaddons i386 3.3.1-2 installed 6.8 M > kdeaddons-atlantikdesigner i386 3.3.1-2 installed 171 k > kdeaddons-xmms i386 3.3.1-2 installed 175 k > kdeadmin i386 7:3.3.1-2 installed 844 k > kdeartwork i386 3.3.1-2 installed 9.6 M > kdeartwork-icons i386 3.3.1-2 installed 11 M > kdebase i386 6:3.3.1-7.el4.centos installed 45 M > kdebase-devel i386 6:3.3.1-7.el4.centos installed 224 k > kdegames i386 6:3.3.1-2 installed 15 M > kdegames-devel i386 6:3.3.1-2 installed 414 k > kdegraphics i386 7:3.3.1-9.el4_6 installed 11 M > kdegraphics-devel i386 7:3.3.1-9.el4_6 installed 61 k > kdemultimedia i386 6:3.3.1-2 installed 17 M > kdemultimedia-devel i386 6:3.3.1-2 installed 1.0 M > kdenetwork i386 7:3.3.1-2.3 installed 21 M > kdenetwork-devel i386 7:3.3.1-2.3 installed 35 k > kdenetwork-nowlistening i386 7:3.3.1-2.3 installed 118 k > kdepim i386 6:3.3.1-2.2 installed 30 M > kdepim-devel i386 6:3.3.1-2.2 installed 1.3 M > kdesdk i386 3.3.1-2 installed 14 M > kdesdk-devel i386 3.3.1-2 installed 140 k > kdeutils i386 6:3.3.1-2 installed 7.7 M > kdeutils-devel i386 6:3.3.1-2 installed 72 k > kdevelop i386 9:3.1.1-2 installed 37 M > libsane-hpoj i386 0.91-9 installed 61 k > lm_sensors i386 2.8.7-2.40.5 installed 1.5 M > lm_sensors-devel i386 2.8.7-2.40.5 installed 236 k > net-snmp i386 5.1.2-11.el4_6.11.3 installed 1.9 M > net-snmp-devel i386 5.1.2-11.el4_6.11.3 installed 543 k > net-snmp-perl i386 5.1.2-11.el4_6.11.3 installed 379 k > net-snmp-utils i386 5.1.2-11.el4_6.11.3 installed 299 k > xojpanel i386 0.91-9 installed 81 k > > Transaction Summary > ============================================================================= > Install 0 Package(s) > Update 0 Package(s) > Remove 71 Package(s) > Total download size: 0 > Is this ok [y/N]: You are trying to remove kernel-utils ...you don't want to do that. That might cut back the deps a bit. Also, i never remove packages with yum, but with: rpm -e `cat list` But, that is just my advise. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080716/5e172e2d/attachment-0005.sig>