moss won't uninstall kernels if the EFI partition is full

[livingsilver94]

My boot partition is 512 MiB big. Here's what I did (I think, I was fiddling with my VM so I wasn't really paying attention...):

1. Installed our alpha image
2. Installed linux-lts and linux-gaming
3. sudo moss repo add unstable https://cdn.aerynos.dev --root-index channel=main,version=stream/unstable -p 0
4. moss up

Error: remove: remove: client: boot: blsforme: bootloader error: io: copy changed files: failed to create directory `/mnt/EFI/aerynos/7.1.8-27.gaming`: No space left on device (os error 28): failed to create directory `/mnt/EFI/aerynos/7.1.8-27.gaming`: No space left on device (os error 28)

Fine, I'll remove kernels.

5. moss rm linux-lts

Same error.

Comment

Basically, moss won't remove kernels if the EFI partition is full, so I think the user is stuck in this loop. I think moss should just remove the kernel packages, so that the user can eventually run moss boot sync to get out of this loop.

[ermo]

Are you using a VM...?

[tarkah]

This is because we sync new assets before purging unused ones.

The rm doesn't work because it's still one of the last 5 states so that kernel is still part of the sync set to boot.

You'll need to activate the state prior to installing the new kernel and prune older states with older kernels so those get nuked from the boot partition, then you'll have space to reactivate the newer state or install the newer kernel.

This is obviously less than ideal and we need to think about how to more intelligently handle this. Maybe @bhh32 has though of this or addressed this already in his rewrite.