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what one doesn't use grub? |
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rgrds, |
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cm. |
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ |
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On Friday, October 18, 2019 3:36 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 6:51 AM Alexander Openkowski |
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> opncow@××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> > I struggle with the naming of genkernel generated kernels for quite a while now and have written a small wapper script for this purpose... |
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> Somebody else shared the same problem and wrote a fairly complex |
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> wrapper, and it is installed on most reader's systems already. It is |
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> called grub-mkconfig. :) |
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> Hey, I get it. I used to do it exactly they way you do. However, the |
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> kernel's make install, and the default behavior of both dracut and |
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> genkernel, all use a consistent naming convention that is compatible |
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> with grub-mkconfig, and I found that it was way easier to join them |
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> then to try to beat them. As a bonus it is easier to keep a library |
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> of past kernel versions in my boot menu. |
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> Now, what I could use is a script/tool that will clean up those |
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> versions using some kind of rotation strategy like: |
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> 1. Keep the last 5 versions of the current series. |
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> 2. Keep the last version of each of the last two longterm series. |
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> 3. Keep one version of every stable series between the current and |
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> the last longterm series. |
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> And this would apply to everything in /boot except config files, and |
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> to modules as well. Config files outside this range would get moved |
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> into some archive directory of old configs. |
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> -- |
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> Rich |
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