[PlanetCCRMA] removing older CCRMA kernel-rt version from GRUB bootmenu

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 15:32 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 23:55 +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> > I just did a "yum update" amd installed the latest version of the CCRMA 
> > kernel-rt.
> > 
> > It works fine, so I decided to "yum remove" the previous kernel-rt 
> > version, that was still installed on my system. After that "rpm -q 
> > kernel-rt" showed the latest version only.
> > 
> > But when I (re)start my computer, Grub's bootmenu still shows the previous 
> > kernel-rt version. But in reality it has been removed properly.
> > 
> > I already found how to fix this: as root I have to edit the file 
> > /boot/grub/grub.conf and delete the lines that correspond with my removed 
> > kernel-rt version manually.
> > 
> > But this is NOT how it is supposed to work, right?
> > 
> > I do not have such a problem with the standard Fedora kernel updates.
> 
> Sigh, most probably an unwanted side effect of renaming the kernel
> "kernel-rt"[*]... I'll have to take a look at the toolchain that messes
> up with the grub.conf file...

Thanks for the report!, should be fixed in upcoming kernels (there was a
missing macro in the %preun script that meant an incomplete kernel
version was being passed to grubby...), regretfully kernel-rt releases
to date will not autoremove themselves from grub. 

-- Fernando