On 06/30/2016 05:38 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > 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. > I'm not sure if this is the info you're looking for, but I'll give it a shot:
I have grub-static installed to /boot/. I like to organize my kernels
with the filenames as linux-${version}-gentoo-${buildno}. So my first
build of 4.5.0, for example, would be 'linux-4.5.0-gentoo-1'. It has all
the info I need for reference should something go awry.
I have three symlinks: current, last, backup
I wrote scripts that will update those symlinks for me, which makes the
process of kernel management pretty painless. Now that I'm thinking
about it, it could be simple in my case to simply clean any kernel that
wasn't linked to.
My /boot/:
grub
lost+found
backup -> linux-4.4.1-gentoo-2
boot
current -> linux-4.4.6-gentoo-1
initrd
last -> linux-4.4.1-gentoo-3
linux-4.4.1-gentoo-2
linux-4.4.1-gentoo-3
linux-4.4.6-gentoo-1
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