From 0583787a68003106af89e37d15c55907f66cd9cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joseph Nuthalapati Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 11:07:39 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] upgrades: Clean up old kernel packages during automatic upgrades The unattended-upgrades package removes older kernel packages before starting the upgrade process, so that the current kernel and the newly installed kernel will be retained and all older kernel packages will be removed. The removal of older kernel packages requires "apt autoremove" to list them. So, a setting to enable autoremoval of packages has been turned on as well. When tested on a vagrant box, the current kernel 4.17.0.1 and the new kernel 4.17.0.3 have been retained. Older kernels were removed preemptively before the installation of 4.17.0.3 Fixes #1372 Signed-off-by: Joseph Nuthalapati Reviewed-by: James Valleroy --- data/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/60unattended-upgrades | 7 +++++++ setup.py | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 data/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/60unattended-upgrades diff --git a/data/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/60unattended-upgrades b/data/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/60unattended-upgrades new file mode 100644 index 000000000..68290c1bc --- /dev/null +++ b/data/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/60unattended-upgrades @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +// Remove unused automatically installed kernel-related packages +// (kernel images, kernel headers and kernel version locked tools). +Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Kernel-Packages "true"; + +// Do automatic removal of new unused dependencies after the upgrade +// (equivalent to apt-get autoremove) +Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true"; diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py index 8f95d173a..0f0f241aa 100755 --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ setuptools.setup( glob.glob('data/etc/apache2/sites-available/*.conf')), ('/etc/apache2/includes', glob.glob('data/etc/apache2/includes/*.conf')), + ('/etc/apt/apt.conf.d', + glob.glob('data/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/60unattended-upgrades')), ('/etc/avahi/services/', glob.glob('data/etc/avahi/services/*.service')), ('/etc/ikiwiki',