Old kernel removals - mine don't get removed automatically

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I dont know how to explain this better.

It has already been established that 2 different issues were being discussed here.

  • #1 = Users who already have kernel-modules-hook installed.
    This results in fully populated past kernel modules directories.

  • #2 = Users without kernel-modules-hook installed.
    This results in previous modules directories persisting due to retained modules.weakdep file.

You fall into category #2 … but used the utility found in the tool associated with issue #1 to ‘solve’ the outcome of issue #2.

You could just as easily use rm to ‘fix’ either issue … but brings you no closer to a real solution or understanding of the cause.

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Both systems here retained modules.weakdep file after update for kernel 6.1 and 6.6

Partner’s system was cleaned manually, similar to OP

On my system I installed kernel-modules-hook and posted data to confirm it works in response to OP

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Not pacman then.

I am on unstable with pacman 7

pacman  7.0.0.r3.g7736133-2.0 [Installed]                                                                 core
    A library-based package manager with dependency support

It seems the depmod script needs maintenance as it does not have a reference to weakdep

Which has been added upstream

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from my side ( Testing )

ls -al /usr/lib/modules

drwxr-xr-x  10 root root   4096 27 sept. 09:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 238 root root 266240 27 sept. 09:10 ..
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root   4096 27 sept. 09:10 6.10.11-2-MANJARO
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 27 août  06:00 6.10.5-1-MANJARO
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 27 août  06:00 6.1.105-1-MANJARO
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root   4096 27 sept. 09:10 6.11.0-6-MANJARO
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root   4096 27 sept. 09:10 6.1.111-1-MANJARO
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 27 août  06:00 6.6.46-1-MANJARO
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root   4096 27 sept. 09:10 6.6.52-1-MANJARO
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 16 août  17:44 6.9.12-3-MANJARO