[CentOS] CentOS 7 - Limiting rescue kernel imeges

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

On 08/24/2015 05:24 AM, Luigi Rosa wrote:
> Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote on 24/08/2015 00:24:
>
>>> installonly_limit=3
>>>
>>>
>>> This parameter works for standard kernel images, but does not work for
>>> rescue images:
>>>
>> <snip>
>>> Is there a way to keep rescue images within a certain limit?
>>
>> man yum.conf , search for installonlypkgs (that's on centos6, might vary in 7)
>
> According to man page:
>
> /*
> installonlypkgs List of package provides that should only ever be installed,
> never updated.
> */
>
> This is not the case for two reasons: (1) I want to install rescue kernel image

yes, install: not update.
That's what installonlypkgs and installonly_limit are for.
Read the manpage again carefully, that sentence you quoted is tricky.


> and (2) there is no rpm package for rescue kernel

that's a problem though... where do these files come from?