Re: [gentoo-dev] kernelmod-rebuild-0.1

[Paul Varner]

Markus Nigbur wrote:
>> Calculating dependencies ...done!
>> [ebuild   R   ] media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.8  -oss
>> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496-r3
>
> mhmm..
>
> pyrania@powerix pyrania $ qpkg -f /lib/modules
> media-libs/svgalib *
> media-video/nvidia-kernel *
> sys-apps/i2c *
> x11-base/xfree-drm *

I am aware of that and the first comment in the script says that it evolved
from the simple script 'emerge -v `qpkg -I -nc -f /lib/modules`'

The main audience for this script isn't developers and experienced gentoo
administrators.  It is intended for use by your average gentoo
administrator.  What prompted me to write it was seeing people on the
gentoo-user mailing list having problems, because they forgot to rebuild
packages after recompiling a kernel.  Finally, since I have been testing it
and looking at the behavior of the various packages during a kernel
recompile, I find it to be very useful as it does the work for you of
locating and building those packages for you and thus saves you time and
effort.  For me, one of the purposes of using computers is the ability to
automate repetitious or error-prone tasks.  This is one of those that I have
found and seen to be error-prone and which to me benefits from being
automated.

Regards,
Paul



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