Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

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On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 07:35 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Just as a side issue, you mentioned that kernel updates remove the
> older 
> kernel, I have noticed the same thing and I have also had Smartpm
> tell 
> me that a new kernel can't coexist with the previous kernel. Is there 
> any way to change this, like is done in other distros, as this sort
> of 
> functionality annoys me, from the point of view that I have often
> been 
> in the situation where my system refused to boot from a new kernel 
> because of a kernel panic, so I had to fall back to the previous
> kernel 
> to boot so I could then remove the new kernel and wait for a further 
> kernel update to fix the issues. I would like to make the decision of 
> how many kernels I want to keep rather than the distro forcing what I 
> can do.

I have three kernels installed (current, previous and previous
previous :-) which I think is the default with yum though it can be
changed by editing installonly_limit in /etc/yum.conf. If smartpm says
that kernels can't coexist it's clearly wrong.

poc

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