Purging old kernels automatically? (was: Re: Next Xubuntu community meeting)

[Pasi Lallinaho]

As Jackson said, 'sudo apt-get autoremove' would take care of cleaning
old kernels. I don't use GUI package managers, but I suspect they have
similar functionality.

Automated methods, even those who'd notify the user and confirmed if
they wanted to remove old kernels, are problematic. What if the user
didn't know what a kernel is? Can we check that the user hasn't actually
used these kernels in the last n days?

I'm not saying I'm against a automated, user-controlled method, but it's
probably best to discuss that on a larger scale for all flavors.
Something might even be in the works.

Cheers,
Pasi

On 18/10/13 02:10, Bruno Benitez wrote:
> I do not either, but it would be nice if there where an option
> somewhere to let people clean it and choose the amount of kernels they
> want to keep or a particular one, or something like that. Like if the
> user would search for the kernels on synaptic and choose the ones to
> remove or keep, but simplified
>
>
> 2013/10/17 Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org
> <mailto:pasi at shimmerproject.org>>
>
>     I don't think we should remove anything from the users' system without
>     his/her approval either.
>
>     Pasi
>
>     On 18/10/13 00:03, Jackson Doak wrote:
>     > Running "apt-get dist-upgrade" or "apt-get autoremove" normally
>     fixes
>     > that, but it's an issue none the less
>     >
>     > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Benoit <frombenny at aliceadsl.fr
>     <mailto:frombenny at aliceadsl.fr>> wrote:
>     >> I won't participate as for any irc meeting (I'm French and the
>     discussion is
>     >> too quick for me).
>     >>
>     >> But I want to point out an issue especially for a LTS version
>     of Xubuntu.
>     >> The update manager should wipe older kernels (keep only the
>     last 3). When a
>     >> version must work for a that long period, with old computers
>     with not that
>     >> much space available, 250MB times 20 or 30 old kernels still
>     installed on
>     >> that machines !!! It broke the system for some of those
>     12.04LTS I followed
>     >> up.
>     >>
>     >> Cheers,
>     >> Benoit
>     >>
>     >> Le 17/10/2013 20:50, Pasi Lallinaho a écrit :
>     >>> Hey,
>     >>>
>     >>> the next Xubuntu community meeting is at
>     >>>     Thursday, October 24 at 15UTC
>     >>> on #xubuntu-devel on the Freenode IRC network.
>     >>>
>     >>> Agenda is in the Xubuntu wiki [1]. As usual, feel free to add
>     items to
>     >>> agenda as long as you are willing to outline and lead the
>     discussion.
>     >>>
>     >>> Cheers,
>     >>> Pasi
>     >>>
>     >>> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings
>     >>>
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