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Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 10:12:26 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
To:     "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts:prune-kernel:remove old kernels and modules dir
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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.
>>=20
>> We could bypass it if we like.
>>=20
>> 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????=20

~
Bhaskar

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