<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Andy: Thanks for the patch here. I've added this to DKMS git head. Regards Andy Whitcroft wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20081204172302.GG14835@shadowen.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">In addition to the fixes for the kernel packages to clean themselves up correctly, DKMS is also making a mess and not cleaning up when all its modules are removed. Specificially it makes a /lib/modules/<version>/updates/dkms directory to hold the installed files. When they are removed this directory is not removed again. This leads dpkg to leave this directory as it is 'not empty'. Below is a debdiff to the DKMS kernel prerm triggers to attempt to clear these out when dkms is cleaning up for a kernel which is being removed. -apw === 8< === diff -u dkms-2.0.20.4/debian/changelog dkms-2.0.20.4/debian/changelog --- dkms-2.0.20.4/debian/changelog +++ dkms-2.0.20.4/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +dkms (2.0.20.4-0ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low + + * Ensure that the /lib/modules/<version>/updates/dkms directory is + removed if it is empty after a removal. This allows the modules + directory to be removed as it becomes empty. (LP: #300773) + + -- Andy Whitcroft <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:apw@canonical.com"><apw@canonical.com></a> Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:48:10 +0000 + dkms (2.0.20.4-0ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low * Backport these fixes from trunk: only in patch2: unchanged: --- dkms-2.0.20.4.orig/kernel_prerm.d_dkms +++ dkms-2.0.20.4/kernel_prerm.d_dkms @@ -13,4 +13,8 @@ done < <(dkms status -k $inst_kern 2>/dev/null | grep ": installed") fi +rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty \ + "/lib/modules/$inst_kern/updates/dkms" \ + "/lib/modules/$inst_kern/updates" + exit 0 </pre> </blockquote> <div class="moz-signature">-- <title></title> Mario Limonciello Dell | Linux Engineering <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mario_limonciello@dell.com">mario_limonciello@dell.com</a> </div> </body> </html>