On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 08:08 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > I guess using installonly_limit to tell it how many kernels to keep no > longer works? > > [raub@some-host ~]$ fgrep installonly_limit /etc/yum.conf > # installonly_limit=5 > installonly_limit=3
YUM/DNF/RPM keeps track of what *it* has installed. But *it* didn't install something on a previous release. So, if you had installed 3 versions of Fedora on the drive, and if two releases ago you had 2 kernels, one release ago it had 3 kernels, and this release has 4 kernels. You have 9 kernels installed, but the current OS only installed 4 of them. And if your install-limit was 4, it's just going to maintain the 4 kernels of the current release. YUM/DNF/RPM is not counting how many kernels you have on disc, it's counting how many kernel packages it installed. It didn't install the kernels of your previous releases. How GRUB maintains itself is another matter. Look in your /boot. Does it contain as many kernels as the GRUB menu? If not, it's just GRUB you need to fix up. If you do have a gazillion kernels, but you don't have a multi-boot system (you just have one release, the current one). You could delete the old kernel files, and fix up GRUB. If you have a gazillion kernels, and you do have a multi-boot system, where you can boot into the previous installation. Well, you could boot into a prior release and deal with its kernels through RPM/YUM/DNF. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.95.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 24 13:59:37 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
