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>>Found a module I forgot to rebuild using equery b /lib/modules:) |
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>>On the other hand splashutils need to be remerged sometimes afaik. |
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>>And vmware drivers. |
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> VMWare doesn't need to be re-emerged after a kernel upgrade, but you need |
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> to run vmware-config again. Because the kernel modules are not installed |
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> by portage, but created by vmware-config, the equery command won't pick |
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> them up. It picks up all modules that belong to a package, and thus |
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> weren't installed by the kernel configuration and the vmware modules |
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> don't belong to a package :( |
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There could be a wrapper ebuild around vmware-config |
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which would register the modules. But of course this is more |
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of a wish than a necessity. Probably some day portage will |
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handle this sort of dependencies. |
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