John Green wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The Gentoo newsletter mentioned the new module-rebuild script,
> so I emerged it and ran it with the following results.
> 
> # module-rebuild list
> ** Packages which I will emerge are:
>         =media-libs/svgalib-1..21-r1
>         =net-wireless/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2
>         =net-wireless/ipw2100-1.1.2-r3
> 
> So I ran
> 
> # module-rebuild rebuild
> 
> and it seemed to rebuild the three packages in question.
> 
> As a check, I then ran module-rebuild list again, and it
> listed the same three modules as before.

This is the way it is supposed to work at the moment. module-rebuild
list is meant to give you a list of modules that module-rebuild rebuild
will rebuild. It does not check if the modules are already built for the
kernel. Of course checking for this would be a great new feature for
which you can submit a request to bugs.gentoo.org

>
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?  Fortunately, everything is
> still working.

Hopefully this clarified things.

Regards,
Petteri Räty


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