RPM needs to go on a diet.

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Feb 17 20:24:39 UTC 2005


Once upon a time, Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com> said:
> The right approach is to just have a default garbage collection policy,
> and for the 0.25% or less of the world that wants something else have a
> config file where you can disable kernel GC entirely or pin certain
> versions so they won't be removed.

How about something like a default cron job (that can be easily
disabled) that looks at how long you've been running a particular
kernel?  If you've been running for more than X days, remove everything
older.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.




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