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tgharold
Asked: 2014-12-14 09:15:32 +0800 CST

How to keep specific old kernels around after a yum update

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I know that in CentOS 6.x, you can put the following line in /etc/yum.conf which tells yum to keep the last N kernels (by default this is set to five):

installonly_limit=5

However, there are cases when using experimental kernels (such as from ELRepo) where I want to keep a specific kernel around even if there have been 5+ updates to that kernel's package.

Are there edits to be made to /boot/grub/grub.conf or are there configuration options for yum (or dracut) to do this?

centos6

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  1. Best Answer

    You need to have yum version 3.2.26 or above and if you don't have it install yum-utils package which comes with the yumdb script. Using yumdb you can set a certain package to be kept from being removed on updates.

    yum update yum
yum install yum-utils
yumdb set installonly keep kernel-2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64
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