Re: [gentoo-dev] How do I keep multiple versions of modules?

[Dan Armak]

On Tuesday 02 April 2002 22:33, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> > Kernel modules should be special and if you rebuild a module, it should
> > remove the module only for the currently running kernel hierarchy and
> > not from a different kernel version.
>
> True.  I suspect that nobody had thought of it yet.
I did, but put it off for post-1.0 :-)

>
> > Is this even possible with the poratge system?
>
> Not right now, although such functionality shouldn't be hard to add.
One solution: where the modules have a separate ebuild (like nvidia-kernel, 
not like pcmcia-cs - but they can be split), set SLOT=KERNEL_VERSION and 
(once we have full slot functionality in Portage) remerging won't unmerge a 
different kernel version's modules.

>
> > I wasn't sure where I should post this, so I crossposted to user and
> > dev.
>
> Please post your comment as a "bug" on bugs.gentoo.org.  You have
> a good point, and it would be a shame for it to get lost.
>
> Thanks,
> g2boojum
>
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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
Matan, Israel