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