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From: Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 00:44:15
Message-Id: 4DD1C6AB.20700@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories by Alan McKinnon
1 On 05/16/2011 08:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:11 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Valmor de
3 > Almeida did opine thusly:
4 >
5 [snip]
6 >
7 > In other words, what you have is exactly what you should have and things as
8 > working as designed. To remove anything in /lib/modules, you must manually rm
9 > them yourself.
10
11 Thanks; manually removed.
12
13 --
14 Valmor
15
16 >
17 > Incidentally, the same goes for the various kernel files in /boot/.
18 >
19 >
20 >
21 >>
22 >> Thanks,
23 >>
24 >> --
25 >> Valmor
26 >>
27 >> -> locate vbox* | grep modules
28 >> /lib64/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/misc/vboxdrv.ko
29 >> /lib64/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/misc/vboxnetadp.ko
30 >> /lib64/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/misc/vboxnetflt.ko
31 >> /lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r4/misc/vboxdrv.ko
32 >> /lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r4/misc/vboxnetadp.ko
33 >> /lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r4/misc/vboxnetflt.ko
34 >>
35 >> -> equery list gentoo-sources
36 >> [ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ]
37 >> * installed packages
38 >> [I--] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.37-r4 (2.6.37-r4)
39 >