The problem and my solution (linux-purge) is presented here
https://youtu.be/gozw6A3qwCY
Subsequently I have published the utility at https://launchpad.net/linux-purge
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Robie, 'apt autoremove' does not work, if there are broken packages in the
system. And that usually is the case, if kernel updates have made /boot full.
Even 'apt(-get) -f install' cannot deal with the space problem, as it tries to
install something that does not fit. There are related bugs in o
This bug was fixed in the package byobu - 5.117-0ubuntu1
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* usr/bin/purge-old-kernels, usr/share/man/man1/purge-old-kernels.1: LP:
#1686138
- deprecate the logic in purge-old-kernel, as apt autoremove is supposed
to work pr
Dustin,
Thank you for working on this! Some comments on your changes though:
1) Users will never see the deprecation message. And do we not want to
make the change more gradually to protect against your concern that apt
autoremove has edge case failures? And don't we want users to switch to
runni
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Title:
purge-old-kernels is superseded by "apt autoremove"
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** Changed in: byobu (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)
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Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
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3b) Before actually removing it, leave it in for a while but have it
exit 1 with a message to stderr to use "apt autoremove" instead.
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Title:
pur
Judging from the open bug reports, purge-old-kernels also does the wrong
thing in various situations currently.
To make progress, can I suggest a deprecation plan?
1) Mark purge-old-kernels as planned to be deprecated in Artful. Work as
normal anyway, but note the planned deprecation to stderr, s
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Importance: Undecided => Medium
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Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
purge-old
That would certainly be nice! I'd be delighted to deprecate purge-old-
kernels.
However, the strange reality is that sometimes apt autoremove doesn't
catch all of the kernels that should/could be removed.
And apt behaves badly when your disk is already full (often due to many
gigs of of old kern
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