To much kernels installed, but config gives a limit of 5

Bug
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Dug in this a little bit (interest is to ship arm images with a small boot partion :grinning:)

yum history shows a update from the command line does something different as from the server-manager

command line:

# yum history
Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror, nethserver_events
ID     | Login user               | Date and time    | Action(s)      | Altered
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    16 |  root <root>             | 2018-08-15 12:32 | I, U, E        |    7

# yum history info 16
Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror, nethserver_events
Config time: 0.022
Yum version: 3.4.3
rpmdb time: 0.000
Transaction ID : 16
Begin time     : Wed Aug 15 12:32:30 2018
Begin rpmdb    : 618:30c6fc96227748c9b609e33795c783bcddfa8ac0
End time       :            12:33:19 2018 (49 seconds)
End rpmdb      : 617:606dc5a76105ca61d555abb449759a9f47a569cc
User           : root <root>
Return-Code    : Success
Command Line   : update
Transaction performed with:
    Installed     rpm-4.11.3-32.el7.x86_64                        @anaconda
    Installed     yum-3.4.3-158.el7.centos.noarch                 @anaconda
    Installed     yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-10.el7.x86_64         @anaconda
    Installed     yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.31-46.el7_5.noarch @updates
Packages Altered:
    Updated centos-release-7-5.1804.1.el7.centos.x86_64  @updates
    Update                 7-5.1804.4.el7.centos.x86_64  @updates
    Erase   kernel-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64                 @anaconda
    Erase   kernel-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64             @updates
    Install kernel-3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64            @updates
    Updated kernel-tools-3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64       @updates
    Update               3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64      @updates
    Updated kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64  @updates
    Update                    3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64 @updates
    Updated python-perf-3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64        @updates
    Update              3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64       @updates

from server-manger (GUI):

# yum history
Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror, nethserver_events
ID     | Login user               | Date and time    | Action(s)      | Altered
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    16 | System <unset>           | 2018-08-15 12:46 | I, U           |    5

# yum history info 16
Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror, nethserver_events
Config time: 0.021
Yum version: 3.4.3
rpmdb time: 0.000
Transaction ID : 16
Begin time     : Wed Aug 15 12:46:50 2018
Begin rpmdb    : 618:30c6fc96227748c9b609e33795c783bcddfa8ac0
End time       :            12:47:39 2018 (49 seconds)
End rpmdb      : 619:d7680163c8cfda4360537725551cdbfa5d3b63ba
User           : System <unset>
Return-Code    : Success
Transaction performed with:
    Installed     rpm-4.11.3-32.el7.x86_64                        @anaconda
    Installed     yum-3.4.3-158.el7.centos.noarch                 @anaconda
    Installed     yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-10.el7.x86_64         @anaconda
    Installed     yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.31-46.el7_5.noarch @updates
Packages Altered:
    Updated centos-release-7-5.1804.1.el7.centos.x86_64  @updates
    Update                 7-5.1804.4.el7.centos.x86_64  @updates
    Install kernel-3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64            @updates
    Updated kernel-tools-3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64       @updates
    Update               3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64      @updates
    Updated kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64  @updates
    Update                    3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64 @updates
    Updated python-perf-3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64        @updates
    Update              3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64       @updates

Best guess is the yum python-API does something different here, but cant find why/where.

A workaround can be to install the yum-utils and incorporate package-cleanup --oldkernels --count=x somehow in pkgaction update. ideally read x from yum.conf

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