[Fedora-packaging] get further rid of uname -r in the kmod stuff and solve the remaining kmod problem

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Mon Aug 14 18:46:39 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 20:06 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> == Remaining problem ==
> 
> When do old kmods get removed from the system? Yes, that's a remaining
> problem (that's why it's listed here (-; ). I'll talk to jcmasters and
> jeremy and will work out a solution if we agree to work further on this
> idea. I'm sure we'll find a solution. The installonlyn-plugin maybe
> could handle that together with the kabi stuff. weak-modules could mark
> a installed module as unused and the plugin (or another plugin) could
> remove it later.

I don't see what's the problem here: Old module packages get removed
when the kernels they depend on (through kabi-provides or otherwise) get
removed, either manually or by installonlyn-plugin.

	- Panu -





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