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

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Tue Nov 05 2019 - 23:31:22 EST


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.