Older kernel cleanup command is inflexible and unportable

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff]

The current command for removing obsolete kernel package - apt-get remove -f -y --purge linux-image-2.6.35-22 - is inflexible. It works for Maverick but doesn't work if I want to run ebuild in Lucid or Natty or to update Jupiter image or whatever.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

eBuild is meant only to run on the specified target version. i.e Jupiter only Maverick ONLY.

Subsequent versions will use the appropriate kernel version corresponding to their respective base distro.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Hey, why "won't fix" when I've marked that I'm working on it?
And I've got a fix already, see the linked branch.

BTW: A good tool is useful where it's expected to work. A great tool is useful in completely unexpected places. For example, I want to build an LTS image with ebuild. And maintaining ebuild having kernel version hard-coded will be time-consuming (read: it's simply a waste of time).

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

I marked it as won't fix because this version of eBuild will not be used going forward.
eBuild is only to be used with the specific targeted version.
Though the kernel image detection is a good idea. I'll mark this as fixed, and be sure that change gets incorporated into the J+1 ebuild. thanks =)

[Eduard Gotwig (gotwig)]

hm, its still a bit uncomfortable. you have to change the kernel number manual at the line: mkinitramfs -o /initrd.gz 2.6.****-generic, in conf.sh

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Do we need an mkinitramfs command at all? Isn't it handled by postinst script in the kernel package? It worked fine for me without this command in UCK.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

OK, converted it to using the latest kernel version as well (if we'd use UCK, we wouldn't have to think about it)