Holly~ Thanks for the reply. It seems fairly straightforward. From reading this, I would think that running module-rebuild populate would be the first task. Add/Del package would be for building discriminate versions of a kernel (presumably for locating problems or just testing out a kernel revision), list is simply a list of what's been 'populate'd, toggle would have similar usage as Add/Del, except that it would allow/disallow a package which has been 'populate'd, and rebuild would be the heart of the reason for this utility, to rebuild a set of modules into a new kernel. Assuming I'm at least somewhat correct in this, my only point of confusion is whether I compile the new kernel first, then run module-rebuild? Or does running module-rebuild 'rebuild' allow me to compile the new kernel, link it, and reboot into it?
Regards, JD -----Original Message----- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 2:35 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates John Dangler schreef: > >> John Dangler schreef: > Holly Bostick schreef: > >> I'm trying to get a definitive answer to this - when I want to >> install a new kernel, I know that there are certain packages that >> will not come back, Is there a way to setup a list of these based >> on what I have installed on my current Gentoo kernel to make emerge >> world easier? > > There is, in fact, now a tool to do this; > > eix module-rebuild * sys-kernel/module-rebuild Available versions: > 0.1 0.5 Installed: 0.5 Homepage: > http://www.gentoo.org/ Description: A utility to rebuild any > kernel modules which you have installed. > > Thanks for the reply. I found the package on portage, but couldn't > locate any docs for how to use it... I'm googling for it atm, but if > you can point me towards any docs on this I'd really appreciate it. > I've been waiting for something like this for a while. > module-rebuild --help /usr/sbin/module-rebuild: illegal option -- - Oh, apparently --help is not enabled; but if you run it either with no options or an 'illegal' option, you get the 'proper usage help', as is standard for most Linux command-line probrams. module-rebuild [options] action [category/package] Version: 0.5 Where options are: -X - Emerge based on package names, not exact versions. -C - Disable all coloured output. Where action is one of: add - Add package to moduledb. del - Delete a package from moduledb. toggle - Toggle auto-rebuild of Package. list - List packages to auto-rebuild. rebuild - Rebuild packages. populate - Populate the database with any packages which currently install drivers into the running kernel. Do you need more than that? It's a pretty simple module atm. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
