Hello,

I have problems removing older kernels from my Centos machines using yum.
Can somebody tell me how to remove specific versions ?

[root@web2 root]# rpm -qa | grep kernel-2
kernel-2.4.21-15.EL.c0
kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0
kernel-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0

Is what I have installed....

And

[root@web2 root]# yum remove kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: CentOS-3.1 - Addons
Server: CentOS-3.1 - Base
Server: CentOS-3.1 - Extras
Server: CentOS-3.1 - Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Erase: No matches for kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0
No actions to take

is what I get.

Thanks,

Taco

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:34:08PM +0200, Taco Scargo wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Taco Scargo,

> I have problems removing older kernels from my Centos machines using yum.
> Can somebody tell me how to remove specific versions ?
<SNIP!>
>
> [root@web2 root]# yum remove kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0
<SNIP!>
> Erase: No matches for kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0
> No actions to take

I don't know about yum, but with rpm you can just do:
	rpm -e kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0
and that should take care of your problem.

I don't know if yum understands versions of packages.  I think it sees each
individual kernel version as a different package.  I know with apt they were all
stored as kernel#2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0 and effectively read as separate packages.

But rpm should solve your problem.

Hope this helps,

Shawn