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Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch

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On 27-05-17, Dejan Jocic wrote:
> On 26-05-17, Fungi4All wrote:
> > From: jodejka@gmail.com
> > As for reason why old one is not removed, it is because Debian keeps not
> > just newly installed kernel, but also one previously installed. One
> > before that was removed by apt-get autoremove.
> > 
> > Unless different desktops have different autoremove behavior in my recent
> > experience kernels can only be removed manually. If you get a current
> > today's image of 8.8 and update/upgrade, then switch to testing and upd/upg,
> > then unstable and upd/upg and autoremove as many times as you like,
> > you will end up with 3 kernels as a choice to boot unstable from.
> > I think in the past it did not work this way.
> 
> Please, do not replay to me and cc it to the list, you mess things up.
> No need to cc me either, I'm subscribed to the list. Thank you in
> advance for that.
> 
> As for subject itself, no, it is not desktop related. For your specific
> case of upgrading from stable to unstable via testing, have no idea,
> never did it that way. 

Just to clarify it a bit, what happens with your old kernel packages
should be set with:

/etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal

which generates file:

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove-kernels

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Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-21 15:40 +0200
  Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-21 16:30 +0200
    Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-21 16:40 +0200
      Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-21 17:00 +0200
      Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Larry Dighera <LDighera@att.net> - 2017-05-22 15:10 +0200
  Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 16:40 +0200
    Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-21 22:00 +0200
      Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 22:20 +0200
        Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-22 00:10 +0200
          Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 11:20 +0200
            Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-22 12:00 +0200
            Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-26 22:10 +0200
              Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 22:40 +0200
                Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-05-27 00:40 +0200
                Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-27 11:30 +0200
                Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-27 16:20 +0200
        Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-22 00:20 +0200
    Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-22 12:40 +0200
      Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 13:20 +0200
      Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-22 13:50 +0200
  Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-05-21 16:50 +0200
  Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 17:10 +0200

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