On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:55 AM, fred smith
<fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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]:
I think kernel-utils is your dependency problem. That package is not
tied to kernel versions (take a look at it's version number). It's a
standalone thing. Remove it from your list and try again.
--
Jeff
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