Re: Bug#58598: base-config: pcmcia modules not removed as expected

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>  When it boots, it tries to start the pcmcia-cs "card services".
>  Later, a dialog offers to remove pcmcia.  Apparently, that only marks
>  `pcmcia-cs*' for removal by `apt'.  That part works.

And pcmcia-modules-`uname -r`.

>  But later, I found (because the pcmcia modules didn't match the
>  kernel; my fault - I built this kernel; and a bunch of unresolved
>  symbol errors printed when I ran `update-modules' while installing
>  the vmware tools) that the /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/pcmcia directory
>  had not been removed.  `dpkg' doesn't know about it.  I think you can
>  just `rm -rf' it after that dialog is answered yes to, then run
>  `depmod -a'.

If that directory doesn't come from a debian package, where does it come from?

I'm not keen on going around cleaning up messes after dinstall makes them.
If dinstall just unpacked some tar file there, that is broken and needs to
be fixed.

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