Bug 128885 - Remove old kernel modules after kernel upgrade
Summary: Remove old kernel modules after kernel upgrade
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
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Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Alpha 1
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2005-10-17 22:24 UTC by Michael Stather
Modified: 2007-02-12 15:51 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Stather 2005-10-17 22:24:57 UTC 
I suggest a mechanism which removed the directory with the old kernel modules
after upgrading to a newer kernel. They don´t work anyway and waste almost 50MB
of disk space.
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-10-18 09:32:05 UTC 
Bad idea ... sometime there are a lot of customers modules and
they do not want this.
Comment 2 Michael Stather 2005-10-18 16:27:47 UTC 
Ok. I´ve no problem with this I just think about ideas making SuSE better IMO. Do you mean modules which are installed and configured by the user with "customers modules". If yes, whet about removing only the modules which were installed with the kernel, not modules which were added manually.
Comment 3 Kurt Garloff 2005-11-28 17:41:18 UTC 
If you rpm -U a new kernel, the old one gets uninstalled and the modules
vanish. So I fail to understand this bug report.
Comment 4 Michael Stather 2005-11-28 22:34:08 UTC 
I don´t know why but when I upgrade my kernewl through YOU there is stille a directory under /lib/modules for the old kernel version which is almost 50MB big.