Re: [PATCH] scripts:prune-kernel:remove old kernels and modules dir from system

[Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 23:31 Tue 05 Nov 2019, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 11:53:28AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > BTW.
> > Bruce,
> > Does the current script expect RHEL or something?
> > I do not see 'new-kernel-pkg' on my Ubuntu machine.
>
> I test on Fedora.  Looks like on recent Fedora that's only provided by
> an rpm "grubby-deprecated", which is an inauspicious name....
>
> I think maybe you're supposed to use "grubby" itself now.  Do you have
> that?
>
> > It would still work with 'new-kernel-pkg: command not found'
> > warning.
> >
> > We could bypass it if we like.
> >
> > command -v new-kernel-pkg && new-kernel-pkg --remove $f
>
> Looks like it's what updates the grub configuration, which is probably a
> nice thing to do if you can.
>
> --b.

Bruce,

Two things,

If the system doesn't run grub , how the fallback policy???

This binary "new-kernel-pkg" also missing in other systems too...I can
confirm that... i.e gentoo,slackware,

So , you are only targeting the rpm based system???? 

~
Bhaskar

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