Hello, everyone. Back in 2011 I started a project called eclean-kernel. The idea was pretty simple -- to have a tool that would clean the old kernels for me since their install is not controlled by the package manager. This little project of mine seems to have gained a lot of popularity.
Sadly, over time a lot of people had trouble with it. Aside to minor Python problems, eclean-kernel proved too simple to handle multitude of user systems with varying /boot layouts. In fact, even I don't use it on all of my systems since it doesn't handle them properly. After being buried in another set of bug reports, I'd like to officially ask Gentoo developers and users for help. I think it's impossible to solve most of the bugs reported so far in the current program design. Therefore, I'd like to rewrite it in a more flexible manner. For this reason, I would like to ask you to provide me with different /boot layouts you may have, had or seen. Basically, the idea is to collect as many different layouts as necessary, and use that to design eclean-kernel in a way making it possible to easily configure it to handle proper variant -- or even possibly make it capable of autoconfiguration. So if you have some time, please reply to this thread with a specific /boot layout that you think needs to be handled, with as much helpful information as possible -- including possible distinctive features and pitfalls. Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
pgpgyiPNQAZea.pgp
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
