Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

["Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@gt.rr.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:33:43 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> 
>>>> At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't
>>>> be doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel,
>>>> you only need "emerge -P gentoo-sources" to remove the rest. I use
>>>> a script that removes all but the last two, and also cleans
>>>> out /lib/modules and /boot.  
>>> Neil, any chance we could get that script?  
>> Provided you have gentoolkit something as simple as this works:
>>
>> # emerge -Cva $(equery -q list gentoo-sources | head -n -2)
> 
> That only cleans out /usr/src, it's slightly different to what I use
> (which rm's the directories first to speed things up) but does basically
> the same. You also need to clear out /lib/modules and /boot with
> 
> Here's the script I use, which is guaranteed to work when it doesn't
> fail. When it does break, you can keep the pieces.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> # clean /lib/modules
> cd /lib/modules
> ls -1rt | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm -fr
> 
> # clean /boot
> grep --quiet /boot /etc/fstab && mount /boot -o remount,rw
> 
> cd /boot
> ls -1rt config-* | head -n -2 | while read f; do
> 	bzip2 -9 $f
> 	mv $f.bz2 oldconfigs/
> 	done
> 
> ls -1rt System.map-* | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm -f
> if [ -f vmlinux ]; then
> 	ls -1rt vmlinux-* | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm -f
> else
> 	ls -1rt vmlinuz-* | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm -f 
> 	fi
> 
> # clean /usr/src
> cd /usr/src
> ls -1drt linux-* | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm -fr
> equery --quiet --nocolor list --duplicates gentoo-sources | awk '{print $1}' | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty emerge --unmerge &>/dev/null
> 
> grep --quiet /boot /etc/fstab && mount /boot -o remount,ro
> # END
> 
> The vmlinuz/vmlinux stuff is because I have a PPC system too, which calls the kernel vmlinux.
> 
> 

Thanks Neil.

Tony

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