purge-old-kernels deprecated

[Keith]

On 1/8/23 2:33 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 3:18 PM Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 at 20:03, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, I bite... How is someone _not_ present at the chair where the
>>> mouse, keyboard and display are located? How is the person able to use
>>> the GUI when _not_ sitting in the chair?
>>
>> I think you might be overthinking things... one friend, Richard, has a Dell Tower PC running Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. I've tried to set up his system for ease of use.
> 
> Ok.
> 
>> When it comes to updating the software on his computer, he gets me to visit him to do the updates in person.
> 
> This does not scale. It is also error prone. What if you don't visit
> when there's an important uptake to install?
> 
> Typically you setup a cron job or systemd timer to fully update the
> system everyday. Something like
> https://github.com/noloader/auto-update .
> 
> Jeff
> 
Anyone using the program linked up above to clean out old kernel 
packages could potentially break their system. At the very least, you 
could get a very different result that from what you expected to happen.

Script is here:
https://github.com/noloader/auto-update#apt

-- 
Keith