aptitude supposed to uninstall old kernel

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/05/2010 03:24 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>> Since starting to use Lucid, aptitude has been uninstalling kernels
>>> automatically and leaving me with just two kernels at every kernel
>>> update. I had meant to look into the logs but I forgot about it and
>>> did a clean install two days ago.
>>>        
>    
>> I use apt-get rather than aptitude and have -16 through -19. I did
>> notice that after kernel upgrades I would be prompted to use
>> 'autoremove' to remove the previous kernel (using 'sudo apt-get
>> upgrade'). I of course ignored the prompt. Unfortunately, I've had so
>> many changes/updates lately that I'll need to poke around to see if I
>> can recreate - I've a lucid test machine that hasn't had it's kernel
>> updated in awhile. I'll fire it up&  use aptitude instead of apt-get to
>> do the update.
>>      
> So it may be that aptitude does not prompt about the auto-remove and
> just does it even though it seems to contradict both 01autoremove and
> 05aptitude.
>
>    
     My experience with 10.04 has been that using aptitude update and 
upgrade to upgrade has not done a thing to limit the number of kernels 
displayed. I had to delete about 6 pairs with the Synpatic package 
manager on my 10.04 system.

73 Karl