On Tuesday 28 November 2006 15:26, James wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan <at> linuxholdings.co.za> writes:
> > You might want to emerge module-rebuild to help with such things in
> > future. It tracks which ebuilds install kenrel modules that need to be
> > rebuilt, and rebuilds them all with one command. So you still have to
> > remember to run it after a kernel upgrade, but at least it removes the
> > resulting hassle if you forget about one of the packages
>
> Ahhh,
>
> But does it detect kernel changes and pop itself into the list when one
> runs some like 'emerge -uDp ' ???
>
> That's what's needed is both a list of what to rebuild and an automated
> reminder. I have so many gentoo systems running now, it's difficult
> for my _tiny_little_brain to remember what I did, where and when.....
>
> (kinda like the good ole days of skirt_chasin in college...)
>
> Any help for those of us with premature_alzheimers?

You do know that `emerge -u gentoo-sources` does not install a new kernel, 
right? It only installs the sources (hence the name). module-rebuild needs to 
be run after you've actually configured, compiled and installed a new 
kernel...

-- 
Bo Andresen

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