[gentoo-user] A pair of bash scripts to rebuild pkgs after a kernel upgrade.

[Gregory Woodbury]

After upgrading the gentoo-sources kernel or linux-headers, there are
some packages that are dependent on the kernel config or on specific
kernel modules. The ebuild "inherit" for eclasses will have the classes
linux-info or linux-mod referenced for these packages.  These scripts do
the work of finding these references and rebuild/reinstall them after a
kernel or linux-headers upgrade.

I am attaching them to this email. They are fairly robust bash scripts
and they have comments and explanations in them.  They should be
used after "eselect kernel set N" so the rebuilds get the correct sources
and .configs to look at.  There are some status update displays since
they should be run from a text console or terminal window.

The "rebuild-kern-set" is the main script that checks the setup and
runs the emerge
The "make-kern-set" does the work of scanning the pkg db to make a set
based on the "inherit"s of the ebuilds.  It scans the db directly for speed and
efficiency rather than digging into the ebuilds with standard tools.

Comments welcome. Enjoy.



-- 
G.Wolfe Woodbury
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