Comment 118 for bug 1357093

Hi Jarno

I would suggest that most desktop users get notified by the updater that there are updates and run the updater accordingly to apply them. As such, I think the unclogging activity needs to run automatically as the users that are using the default boot partition size almost certainly have no interest in having to run the software themselves or even making a decision about how many old kernels to keep. In fact I suggest that there are a goodly number of users that wouldn't know what to do with an old kernel anyway.

My suggestion would be that there should be a default number of kernels to keep (2 or maybe 3 would be my vote) but have a configuration file that would allow the number to be altered for those users that wanted to change the default. In fact you could even use a 0 value to indicate that the user does not want the un-clogging to happen automatically.

It seems like all the commands and scripts have been sorted out over time and the work is really to apply them in an automated fashion. I do recognise that, there may be a more elegant solution that might be preferable though. In which case that is going to be more work.

If we are talking about putting this in place to run automatically and definitely removing the "out of space" issue with no effort on behalf of the user, then I would be happy to contribute towards the bounty. Can you confirm that this would be the intention?

I don't think that the default size of the boot partition should be ignored though. Surely it's not going to break anyone's system to up the size to 500Mb. Whilst I'm not a developer, I can't believe it would take much effort to increase the default size.

Thanks for your persistence and help moving this bug along Jarno.