Cleaning up of /lib/modules

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 02:17:50PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > The issue is that these are not files generated by the kernel package
> > per-se, they are generated by modutils; though they are generated by
> > commands triggered in postinst from the kernel.  Changes in modutils
> > lead to us being blamed for files remaining.  That package really needs
> > to offer a 'clean up the room before leaving' option.  It is not clear
> > how the kernel packaging could check for this at packaging time.
> 
>  Agreed; I checked module-init-tools/depmod.c and the depfiles[] array
>  has them all; the only other /lib/modules/*/modules.* files are
>  modules.order and modules.builtin which are regular files shipped by
>  the .debs.
> 
>  I think we should add a --purge to depmod or so.
> 
>  Thanks for sharing the idea, are you interested in implementing it?

I might do just that.  For the moment I am going to put similar logic in
the kernel packaging.  If its not the files we know are in there zap them.

-apw