[Test-Announce] Preupgrade Test Day - Thursday 2010-04-29

[Richard Hughes]

On 29 April 2010 07:51, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Why does the "too low /boot space to install" testcase (which is actually
> the common case when upgrading from F12 or F11) still require manually
> removing excess kernels, 6 months after this issue became initially known?

Because nobody has written a patch to do this yet.

> Preupgrade should do this automatically. After the upgrade, ALL the old
> kernels will be removed anyway, so I don't see how it hurts to remove all
> except the running one right away.

Sure, as long as you're currently running the latest kernel then I
guess this makes sense. Patches very welcome.

Richard.