Distro-provided mechanism to clean up old kernels

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Mon Feb 20 14:27:33 UTC 2012


Tim Edwards [2012-02-17 11:49 +0100]:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012, at 07:23 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > linux-headers-* is already covered by apt-get autoremove, which is
> > good. Perhaps we can mark older kernels as auto-removable as well, so
> > that without any other tools you at least have one command to clean
> > them up all?
> 
> Are you sure about this? I did a test and I don't think that autoremove
> removes the linux-headers-*:

I'm 100% sure that this worked in the past, but apparently that
changed at some point. Indeed autoremove does not seem to do this any
more now.

Martin
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