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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the proper usage of module_rebuild?
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 13:39:30
Message-Id: 201105171537.25024.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What is the proper usage of module_rebuild? by felix@crowfix.com
1 felix@×××××××.com writes:
2
3 > At any rate, it seems kind of odd. What is the proper way of using
4 > module_rebuild? It seems to me there are two cases, and maybe that
5 > is why this script has this odd code. If you have just built a brand
6 > new kernel, you might want to rebuild the module list from scratch.
7 > But once you have done that, future emerges only need to keep the
8 > module list up to date.
9
10 Whatever. With a recent portage you just emerge @module-rebuild, that's what
11 I use. There's also @x11-module-rebuild, for recompiling Xorg stuff when
12 xorg-server is updated.
13
14 Wonko