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From: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts:prune-kernel:remove old kernels and modules dir from system
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 10:12:26 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191106044223.GA18076@Gentoo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191106043120.GB6355@fieldses.org>

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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-06  4:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-02  6:30 [PATCH] scripts:prune-kernel:remove old kernels and modules dir from system Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-05  2:03 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-11-05  2:32   ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-11-05  4:39     ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-05  4:52       ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-06  2:53     ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-11-06  3:10       ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-06  4:03         ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-11-06  4:29           ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-06  4:31       ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-11-06  4:32         ` Randy Dunlap
2019-11-06  4:42         ` Bhaskar Chowdhury [this message]
2019-11-06 19:30           ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-11-06 22:39             ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-09  7:25               ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-11-09 11:13                 ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-15  1:58                   ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-11-15 15:21                     ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-18  7:30                       ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-11-05  4:33   ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
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2019-10-30  9:54 [PATCH] scripts: prune-kernel:remove " Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-10-31  2:33 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-31  3:37   ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-10-31  4:32     ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-31  4:52       ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-10-31  5:27         ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-31  7:18           ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-10-31 15:06             ` Randy Dunlap
2019-11-01  4:23               ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-01  5:11                 ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-01  5:45                   ` Randy Dunlap

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