On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 10:09 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa > <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 02.03.2016 15:28, Paolo Abeni wrote: > >> > >> This patch add a rpm preuninstall scriptlet to cleanup the > >> boot loader configuration on kernel package uninstall. > >> The initrd for the to-be-removed kernel is deleted, too. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> --- > >> scripts/package/mkspec | 5 +++++ > >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > >> > >> diff --git a/scripts/package/mkspec b/scripts/package/mkspec > >> index fe44d68..b6de63c 100755 > >> --- a/scripts/package/mkspec > >> +++ b/scripts/package/mkspec > >> @@ -138,6 +138,11 @@ echo "/sbin/installkernel $KERNELRELEASE > >> /boot/.vmlinuz-$KERNELRELEASE-rpm /boot > >> echo "rm -f /boot/.vmlinuz-$KERNELRELEASE-rpm > >> /boot/.System.map-$KERNELRELEASE-rpm" > >> echo "fi" > >> echo "" > >> +echo "%preun" > >> +echo "if [ -x /sbin/new-kernel-pkg ]; then" > >> +echo "new-kernel-pkg --remove $KERNELRELEASE --rminitrd > >> --initrdfile=/boot/initramfs-$KERNELRELEASE.img" > >> +echo "fi" > >> +echo "" > >> echo "%files" > >> echo '%defattr (-, root, root)' > >> echo "/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE" > >> > > > > Maybe we should also switch to new-kernel-pkg for the postinstall call? How > > about switching to kernel-install? > > new-kernel-pkg probably shouldn't be used here either. The > installkernel binary is the distro agnostic kernel installation tool > and the various distros provide that as either the tool they use or as > a wrapper. Switching to new-kernel-pkg implies this would only be > viable on grubby based distros, and using kernel-install would require > systemd. I'm sorry, I try to dig a bit, but I did not find any distro agnostic kernel removal tools. Can you please point out some ? Elsewhere can we stuck with new-kernel-pkg, plus eventual fall-back to other options, i.e. kernel-install? Thank you, Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html