As someone using eclean-kernel somewhat regularly, I figured I should mention what running `make all modules_install install` in the kernel source looks like:
$ ls -F1 /boot config-4.6.0-gentoo config-4.6.1-gentoo config-4.6.2-gentoo config-4.6.3-gentoo efi/ grub/ initramfs-4.6.0-gentoo.img initramfs-4.6.1-gentoo.img initramfs-4.6.2-gentoo.img initramfs-4.6.3-gentoo.img lost+found/ System.map-4.6.0-gentoo System.map-4.6.1-gentoo System.map-4.6.2-gentoo System.map-4.6.3-gentoo vmlinuz-4.6.0-gentoo vmlinuz-4.6.1-gentoo vmlinuz-4.6.2-gentoo vmlinuz-4.6.3-gentoo This is from running `make install` with files in /etc/kernel/postinst.d to run the following: cd /boot; dracut --force --kver=$1 --install "<list of firmware> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/grub.d/10_linux (in sys-boot/grub:2) does have a collection of names it searches through as well, including 13 variants of initrd for the same kernel version. Thanks for maintaining this tool, it's pretty useful in this straightforward case. On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> 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. > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> >
