Re: Debian/Ubuntu kernel update question

["John Abreau-2" <user=184@nabble.blu.org>]

 The remainder of the sentence says that Fedora deletes 
all but two kernels. I don't see how you could interpret 
that to mean that Fedora keeps all kernels. 


Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> You said that "Fedora does this" and I was not sure what you were 
> referring to "keeping all kernels" or retaining the previously running 
> kernel, or deleting all old kernels. 
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> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:03:43 -0400 
> John Abreau <[hidden email]> wrote: 
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>> I said that Fedora does this, and that I don't know whether Ubuntu does. 
>> In what way is that contradicting myself? 
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>> Jerry Feldman wrote: 
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>>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:17:30 -0400 
>>> "John Abreau" <[hidden email]> wrote: 
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>>>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
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>>>>> Is there a setting that can limit the number of installed kernels. I 
>>>>> think that most people would want only the current kernel, and the 
>>>>> previous kernel. 
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>>>> I don't know about Ubuntu, but I've noticed recently that Fedora does this; 
>>>> after a yum update that updates the kernel, it apparently deletes all kernels 
>>>> except the new one and the currently-running one. 
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>>> You contradict yourself. I know that SuSE deletes the old kernels too, 
>>> and SuSE has a utility for maintaining GRUB. But, my issue was very 
>>> specific. On Ubuntu/Debian it appears that all prior kernels are 
>>> retained. 
>>> 
>>> It would be nice for any distro to have a configurable option. I 
>>> prefer at least 1 prior kernel as a backup, with 2 being pretty much 
>>> the most that most people would want.   
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