Automatic Old Kernel Removal Spec Proposal

[Michael Vogt]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:54:16PM +0300, Sivan Greenberg wrote:
> Hi all,
Hi Sivang,
 
>  Seeing this idea also on the Kernel section of Edgy community ideas, I
> took to start and draft this spec. This is something I've been wanting
> to have since breezy and I think would complement the efforts we do in
> targeting the developer community as well as contributing testers from
> the community, even through relative high breakage as kernel upgrades.
> 
> Please read the brief spec proposal (and use cases) at [1].

I like the idea and added a possible way to do this to the spec. I
think we should make the package managers deal with it and if we add
a log at what time what kernel was bootet we can be reasonable sure to
not delete anything that is required (e.g. only remove stuff more than
n weeks old). 
 
> I'd like to hear comments feedback and suggestion for this, especially
> for the other significant part of this feature goal which is sending and
> collecting statistics relevant to this on Launchpad. I wonder if this
> can be extended to other part of the distro, thus powering us to know
> where we stand in different parts of functionality and supporting our
> pre-release decisions.

I'm not sure if this is required but this is obviously the call of the
kernel team (if they need this feature). 

Cheers,
 Michael

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