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From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] What is the proper usage of module_rebuild?
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:22:31
Message-Id: 20110516132050.GB3678@crowfix.com
1 I have an ancient emerge script which does this:
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3 rm -rf /var/lib/module-rebuild
4 module-rebuild -C list
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6 and I do not know why -- did I dream this up myself, or did I inherit
7 it from somewhere? I do not know.
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9 At any rate, it seems kind of odd. What is the proper way of using
10 module_rebuild? It seems to me there are two cases, and maybe that
11 is why this script has this odd code. If you have just built a brand
12 new kernel, you might want to rebuild the module list from scratch.
13 But once you have done that, future emerges only need to keep the
14 module list up to date.
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16 And then I realized I don't even know what the module list actually
17 is.
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19 Please enlighten me :-O
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Re: [gentoo-user] What is the proper usage of module_rebuild? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] What is the proper usage of module_rebuild? Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>