leftover modules

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Mon Jan 26 19:42:24 UTC 2004


Once upon a time, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <dsavage at peaknet.net> said:
> Has anyone else noticed that when you 'rpm -e ...' a 2.6 rpm, its
> corresponding /lib/modules/2.6.x directory is not removed?

Same is true of the 2.4 kernel directories.  The reason is that nothing
owns the modules.dep file, so it doesn't get removed (and then rpm can't
remove the directory because it is not empty).
-- 
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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