On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 17:30 +0000, John Mylchreest wrote:
> As I requested in a previous post, it is there for a few reasons. It is
> a key phase in automating the process of kernel upgrades. For example..
>
> something along the lines of:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> USE="symlink" emerge ${1:-sys-kernel/gentoo-sources}
> genkernel --no-menuconfig --install
> for I in $(</var/lib/modules)
> do
> module_list="${module_list} ${I}"
> done
> emerge --nodeps ${module_list}
>
> and that module list is populated (or removed) when the user
> merges/unmerges a module. (postinst, postrm)
>
> will download, compile and install a new kernel, and all modules which
> are currently on the system.
>
> As I also suggested in a previous post, if you can think of a more
> intuitive way for the user to be able to do this, without the use of a
> USE flag which is persistent and doesn't involved an external file,
> please. Let me know. If its viable, I will migrate the functionality to
> that.Honestly, what it sounds like you're planning for is a portage feature, not an optional component. You might do better with something like FEATURES=autokernel or something. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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