On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 6:51 AM Alexander Openkowski <opn...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I struggle with the naming of genkernel generated kernels for quite a while > now and have written a small wapper script for this purpose... >
Somebody else shared the same problem and wrote a fairly complex wrapper, and it is installed on most reader's systems already. It is called grub-mkconfig. :) Hey, I get it. I used to do it exactly they way you do. However, the kernel's make install, and the default behavior of both dracut and genkernel, all use a consistent naming convention that is compatible with grub-mkconfig, and I found that it was way easier to join them then to try to beat them. As a bonus it is easier to keep a library of past kernel versions in my boot menu. Now, what I could use is a script/tool that will clean up those versions using some kind of rotation strategy like: 1. Keep the last 5 versions of the current series. 2. Keep the last version of each of the last two longterm series. 2. Keep one version of every stable series between the current and the last longterm series. And this would apply to everything in /boot except config files, and to modules as well. Config files outside this range would get moved into some archive directory of old configs. -- Rich
