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

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Message-ID: <2754bf80-2653-5d94-6b1e-f33a34914b77@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 5 Nov 2019 20:32:47 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts:prune-kernel:remove old kernels and modules dir
 from system

On 11/5/19 8:31 PM, 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.

on openSUSE, I don't have new-kernel-pkg or grubby.

-- 
~Randy