Bug 31143

Summary: Add 'remove-old-kernels' to live, classic and net installers.
Product: Mageia Reporter: Barry Jackson <zen25000>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: High CC: fri, mageia
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: Mageia 9   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Barry Jackson 2022-11-16 20:15:14 CET 
Description of problem:
In order to avoid system failures, as have been well discussed over the last few years in https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24403 this package should be installed by default by all the installers.

I have opened this new bug in order to try to make sure that this happens for Mageia 9.

Many testers have this working well and it now has sufficient flexibility to be used by all types of users.

By default for the non-tech user it just works from install.

Whilst it is not possible to satisfy everyone, I have tried to make this small package flexible enough to cater for all preferences and abilities.

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Morgan Leijström 2022-11-16 22:32:50 CET

Priority: Normal => High
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 9
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
CC: (none) => fri

Comment 1 Martin Whitaker 2022-11-19 09:24:57 CET 
You can do this yourself Barry. It doesn't require any change to the installer. Just add remove-old-kernels to rpmsrate.raw in the meta-task package.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 2 Barry Jackson 2022-11-19 17:43:12 CET 
(In reply to Martin Whitaker from comment #1)
> You can do this yourself Barry. It doesn't require any change to the
> installer. Just add remove-old-kernels to rpmsrate.raw in the meta-task
> package.

Thanks Martin,

Yes, I realize that but I don't fully understand the structure there and don't want to do the wrong thing ;)

I was expecting some discussion here about whether it should be installed in ALL installs or only in D.E. installs, since it will be enabled by default.

I find it useful on servers so for me, ALL would be fine.

I will take another look at meta-task over the weekend :)
Comment 3 Barry Jackson 2022-11-28 00:42:34 CET 
OK that has been done, although the docs in meta-task need some clarification, as they are impossible to follow.

remove-old-kernels is now in CAT_SYSTEM.
Whether it needs to be added explicitly to LIVE is unclear as the README says that each package can be included only once, yet some are in twice.

Closing as fixed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED