270058 – provide set for kernel modules

Bug 270058 - provide set for kernel modules

Summary: provide set for kernel modules

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2009-05-16 13:45 UTC by Martin von Gagern
Modified:	2009-05-16 15:14 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Martin von Gagern 2009-05-16 13:45:15 UTC

It would be nice to have a set of all packages which install kernel modules.

Rationale: so you can type things like this:
cd /usr/src/linux && cp /boot/config .config && make oldconfing && make && \
emerge -1 @kernel-modules && make firmware_install modules_install install

My simple approach to this would be to walk all installed packages and see which one place files in /lib/modules. Grepping CONTENTS files would be feasible, but I guess there is a much nicer way using the portage python API.

Comment 1 Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2009-05-16 13:55:34 UTC

This already exists as the @module-rebuild set.

Comment 2 Martin von Gagern 2009-05-16 15:14:15 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> This already exists as the @module-rebuild set.

Thanks a lot! I somehow missed that in the portage documentation. Probably because it's no python class by itself, but simply an application of the OwnerSet class, which I hadn't considered closely enough. Sorry for the noise.