On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:45 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: >On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:33:24 -0500, Jeff Johnson <n3npq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Or have every possible bleeping kernel already pre-installed and never >> remove anything. >> Unfortunately, that exercises known deficiencies with both rpm and >> hardlinks, and is >> slower than optimal, so take valium and be patient. > > >The question becomes... can someone expose reasonable sane default >behavior of some tool to do old kernel pruning... to avoid normal >fedora users from encountering these deficiencies when you have 17 or >so update kernels installed. This is a script I've been using on two Rawhide boxes. (Well, actually, it's the version I use on this box; the version on the other box is different and a bit better, but it's not online right now.) It displays a list of installed kernels, except for the newest kernel and the currently running kernel, and lets you pick the ones you want to remove. It's graphical (uses Zenity), but could easily be changed to be console-only if someone really wanted to. The other version I have knew how to remove some related packages like kernel-devel, but it also wasn't quite as bright about some other things; it's been a while, I forget what all the differences between the two scripts were. This is definitely not the ideal tool for the problem, but it's something other Rawhide users might find useful, so here it is. > >-jef > -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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