RFE: yum

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Sat Jun 24 21:49:12 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 15:43 -0500, Jason Dravet wrote:
> I was wondering what support there is for the following idea:  having
> yum be 
> able to remove the ntfs module for the kernel yum is removing.  Right
> now I 
> install the ntfs module from linux-ntfs.org for each kernel release.
> When I 
> do a yum update and a new kernel is avaialable and installed, an old
> kernel 
> is also removed.  It would be nice if yum removed the old ntfs kernel
> module 
> as well.  This saves me from having to clean up after it i.e. remove
> the old 
> module package and rm -rf /lib/modules/old-kernel to get rid of the 
> remaining directory structure.  If any one else likes this idea I will
> open 
> a bugzilla RFE for it. 

I bet you could feed that package into the onlyn plugin that yum uses to
remove old kernels via an algorithm.

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