Adding a kernel removal script to linux-base or elsewhere

[Jarno Suni]

Hello!

What is the recommended way to publish the script? I guess Launchpad would be the right place. And using Git repository might be a good idea. I have got a Launchpad account (jarnos). Is it better to create a project in Launchpad or to create a PPA? Detailed instruction would be welcome. 
 
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Jarno Suni - http://iki.fi/8/ 



> On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 10:32 PM, Jarno Suni <j_suni at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Here is some update. My script does not use linux-version anymore. But I named 
> the script linux-purge. It can remove kernels even in some problem cases where 
> e.g. there are dependency problems due to an unsuccessful kernel update (e.g. 
> due to full /boot partition). It provides optional UI for interactive checklist 
> based kernel removal. It does not support kfreebsd-image and gnumach-image 
> kernels, but only Linux kernels and it is designed to work in any flavor of 
> Ubuntu.
> Here is a demo that shows it in action: 
> https://youtu.be/TpsZoAnOVTU
> 
> I have not published the script yet, but maybe later, if there is enough 
> interest.
> -- 
> Jarno Suni - http://iki.fi/8/ 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>  On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 2:29 PM, Jarno Suni <j_suni at yahoo.co.uk> 
> wrote:
>>  > Now that linux-base is part of .?ubuntu 16.04, I think it would be 
> good to add a 
>>  linux-kernel removal tool to linux-base. On the other hand, I think such a 
>>  script is especially useful for some older releases, since e.g. Trusty 
> tends to 
>>  mark kernel updates as being manually installed packages and as such 
>>  'apt-get autoremove --purge' can not purge them. (
>>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/vivid/+source/aptdaemon/+bug/1439769
>>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1492709
>>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1175637)
>>  If automatic removal of unneeded kernels is not enabled, /boot fills up, 
> and 
>>  blocks kernel updates:
>>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1054927
>> 
>>  There is purge-old-kernels currently at byobu repository, but maybe it is 
> too 
>>  simple, and has some bugs:
>>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/byobu/+bug/1569228
>>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bikeshed/+bug/1532153
>>  I have rewritten it to fix those at 
>> 
>>  https://github.com/dustinkirkland/bikeshed/pull/1
>>  when purge-old-kernels was located at bikeshed, and as I have written in 
> the 
>>  (last) comment: "I have written an enhanced script for similar purpose 
> 
>>  again, but maybe it is not good to call it purge-old-kernels, since it can 
> be 
>>  used to purge newer kernels, too (but keeping the kernels that installed 
> kernel 
>>  meta packages depend on and given number of older ones). It currently uses 
>>  linux-version from linux-base package to sort kernel releases as needed. I 
> am 
>>  looking for a suitable place to publish the bash script."
>> 
>>  Finding meta kernel packages is problematic. I have used regular expression 
> 
>>  matching the package names: 
>>  http://askubuntu.com/q/775830/21005It seems to work in Ubuntu, but not in 
> Debian 
>>  as such, I think. Also getting versioned kernels (and packages related to 
> kernel 
>>  of specific release) may be problematic in general:
>>  https://lists.debian.org/deity/2016/05/msg00115.html
>> 
>>  So how about adding some ubuntu-purge, linux-purge or kernel-purge in 
>>  linux-base? Should it support 
>>  kfreebsd-image and gnumach-image that are listed by "apt-config 
> dump"?
>>  -- 
>>  Jarno Suni - http://iki.fi/8/ 
>> 
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