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Bug 590504 - Add the ability to check for fulfilled kernel options
Summary: Add the ability to check for fulfilled kernel options
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2016-08-04 19:14 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified: 2016-08-04 19:14 UTC (History)
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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2016-08-04 19:14:44 UTC
Hello

I am not sure if this has been discussed before, but bugs like:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589990

Reminds me that it's a real problem that we can only check for kernel options being rights for *installed* packages only if we try to re-emerge them.

I was thinking about if it would be possible to always check for that requirements when, for example, updating the system with the standard "emerge -avuDN world" (or maybe with an additional option that we could simply append to that for people wanting to save time).

I am not sure if maybe a way to do that would be to run pkg_pretend for all installed packages (not only the ones that will be installed with the update)... if that is the case, I think that probably a new option would fit better :/

What do you think?

Thanks a lot for your thoughts for trying to resolve this :|