I noticed that open-vm-tools looks for the kernel source directory for compiling its modules. However, it is not registered with module-rebuild. I suggest to register open-vm-tools with module-rebuild so that open-vm-tools can be easily recompiled on a kernel upgrade. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Maybe I use module-rebuild in a wrong way: After $ module-rebuild populate open-vm-tools is correctly added to module-rebuild's database.
Thanks, I'll look into this. Linux-mod is being inheritted, so the correct functions should be getting called, but it's possible something else is overriding it...
Well, I've just double checked open-vm-tools, and it definitely added itself to the moduledb. This issue may also go away given the latest portage will support "emerge @module-rebuild" to do the rebuilding. Either way, could you please check whether this is still happening or not?
I tried again on a system which never had open-vm-tools installed before, and rebuilding with module-rebuild worked on first try. So unfortunately I cannot reproduce the issue reported by me!
Ok, thanks for testing that. I'm going to mark this as WORKSFORME then... 5:)
