(Jan, when replying to a bug, please keep the submitter in Cc…) 

Patrick Winnertz <[email protected]> (13/05/2008):
> Hey,
> module-assistant doesn't clean up the working dir correctly. This means:
> 
> If you have a package foo-source installed with version 2.3.5-1, build
> the foo-modules-$yourkernel package and then install foo-source 2.4.6-1
> and build again foo-modules-$yourkernel the second one will propably
> fail, since the sourcecode is reextracted well from the .tar.bz2 but if
> there are files with different names/different folders they are not
> removed. It's only a new tar xfvz foo-source... without cleaning
> modules/.. before.

Maybe that's what “m-a clean $module” is for? Search for “clean” in the
manpage? I guess it could be automated in some way, but at least m-a
doesn't pretend it should be automatic in its doc, so not really an
important bug to me, rather a feature request, no?

Mraw,
KiBi.

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