Distro-provided mechanism to clean up old kernels

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Feb 16, 2012, at 03:34 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote:

>Yeah, something like this, perhaps with a uname -r check, to also
>exclude the current kernel you're running, which apparently *is* known
>to work.
>
>Regarding computer-janitor and the dbus discussion -- I certainly like
>the idea of computer-janitor in general, but I think I agree with
>Barry that it feels much more like a desktop than a server solution.
>
>I guess what I would like to see is to take perhaps Kees' script as a
>starting point, improve upon that logic slightly, and ship it within
>Ubuntu as a consistent, supported, recommended mechanism for vacuuming
>out unneeded kernels.  Something like 'remove-old-kernels', perhaps
>shipping in computer-janitor, or ideally more pervasive.  In order to
>be useful, though, we'd need to make that script available to
>installed systems via SRU.
>
>Barry, would you be willing to accept a shell script along these
>lines, into computer-janitor, if I cleaned it up and proposed a merge
>and shepherded it through the SRU process?  Or, is there a better home
>we can agree upon?

Dustin, try to see if you can make it work within c-j's plugin framework.  I
don't think it would be too difficult.   You can see some examples in the
computer-janitor package, but the base classes actually live in the
update-manager package (yes, this is one of those odd bookkeeping bugs I was
talking about).

Cheers,
- -Barry
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