On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:24:53PM -0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Put together a patch to clean this lot up (attached).
This patch looks good and fixes several bugs, but not the exact issue I reported. My apologies for not being clearer in the original report. In my case, the modules.* files *were* removed, but probably only thanks to bug 250511 (those kernels predated the fix, so the files were included in the package and removed by dpkg). The build links do in fact belong to linux-headers-* packages and so their presence is not unexpected (though they do trigger the error message from failing rmdir, which your patch addresses). The crux of my problem is the "updates" directory, which contains modules built by DKMS. Nothing cleans up these files when a kernel is removed, only when the entire module package (e.g. nvidia-173-kernel-source) is removed. I think what's needed is to add a "dkms remove" command to the kernel package postrm which removes all modules installed by dkms for the specified kernel version. (FWIW, I think the maintainer scripts for the kernel package would probably benefit from being stripped down to simpler shell scripts. We inherited them from kernel-package, but don't use it anymore and could get by with something much simpler I think.) -- - mdz -- Removal does not clean up after dkms, l-r-m(?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300773 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
