Purging old kernels automatically?

[Elfy]

On 18/10/13 00:26, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
> 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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>>
>
>
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> Pasi Lallinaho (knome)                      »http://open.knome.fi/
> Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu       »http://shimmerproject.org/
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>
>

Have to agree with this.

I'm not sure that this should be a Xubuntu discussion.

Apart from anything else - why remove kernels automatically - someone 
might want them there.

In addition to that - who'd do the work, make sure it was maintained etc.

Elfy

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