Re: tftpboot cleanup script: your input needed

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 01:30 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> I'm writing a tftpboot cleanup script with the following logic:
> If it finds a vmlinuz-$NAME file, it looks for a matching 
> /opt/ltsp/$arch/lib/modules/$NAME.  If $NAME does not exist, then it was 
> removed from the chroot, and there is no reason to keep the 
> corresponding kernel in the tftpboot directory anymore.
> 
> Removals from the tftpboot directory happen only by a strict pattern, so 
> it is safe to whatever other content you have in that directory.  For 
> this reason I intend on adding this cleanup routine (after it is 
> thoroughly tested to be safe) to the standard ltsp-update-kernels script.
> 
> I need your distro's unique "patterns" of filenames that need to be 
> cleaned up based upon $NAME.  For example, here are Fedora's patterns. 
> Please let me know your patterns only if they differ from this, so I can 
> add it to the cleanup list.
> 
> vmlinuz-$NAME
> config-$NAME
> System.map-$NAME
> initrd-$NME.img
> wraplinux-nbi-$NAME.img
> elf-$NAME.img
> 
> Warren Togami
> [email protected]

we don't have any nbi stuff yet, but our kernel and initramfs are (by
default)

 initramfs-genkernel-$ARCH-$NAME
 kernel-genkernel-$ARCH-$NAME

of course, users can provide their own kernels, but the script does not
have to take them into account IMO




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