On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 16:10 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 07/20/2018 03:35 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 07/16/2018 05:37 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Mon, 2018-07-16 at 06:26 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > On 07/16/2018 04:46 AM, Tom Yates wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Where do I set how many kernels to keep? If I have to fall back to > > > > > > 17.3, I am going to have more than 3 available... > > > > > > > > > > As I understand it, it's > > > > > > > > > > installonly_limit=3 > > > > > > > > > > in /etc/yum.conf . > > > > > > > > Thanks. In F28 that is: /etc/dnf/dnf.conf > > > > > > > > Upped mine to 5 for now. > > > > > > Ditto, though it would be nice to be able to mark a specific kernel as > > > non-removable, rather than just relying on the window not overflowing. > > > > As long as you are using the kernel you want to keep at the time you > > upgrade, it will not get removed. The next oldest one will be removed > > instead. Or you could just manually remove one of the other ones. > > Supposedly, you could do something like: > > echo "kernel-4.17.3-200" >/etc/dnf/protected.d/kernel.conf > > That's supposed to make sure dnf doesn't remove that package. Note that > the "kernel" package is really a meta package that includes the > kernel-core, kernel-modules and whatnot. I've never relied on this > bit of dnf magic, but it's supposed to work. > > I just tested it on a VM by "protecting" an old kernel and it seemed to > work (that kernel wasn't removed, even though it was old). Your mileage > may vary. Interesting. I must look at that. It would be easy to work up into a script. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/JIJ3GFC7WEHBNPNWTPAJ5LMMOBBUQVLV/
