Bug 115310

Summary:	Semi-automatically re-emerging kernel-dependant packages
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Lutz Lehmann <mail>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	batch script to be run by root that re-emerges those _installed_ packages that die when updating the kernel

Description Lutz Lehmann 2005-12-12 07:42:41 UTC

There are several packages that need re-emerging after updating or    
reconfiguring your kernel, such as x11-drm, [ati|nvidia]-drivers, captive,   
ndiswrapper, and possibly others. I usually forget to re-emerge those and   
wonder why my system keeps bugging me one way or the other.   
   
Manually emerging all needed packages is not a prefered way as one can forget  
packages that actually need to be rebuilt.  
  
  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. rebuild kernel  
2. reboot 
3. watch error messages flying by :)

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-12-12 07:46:23 UTC

emerge sys-kernel/module-rebuild

Comment 2 Lutz Lehmann 2005-12-12 07:46:25 UTC

Created attachment 74579 [details]
batch script to be run by root that re-emerges those _installed_ packages that die when updating the kernel

batch script to be run by root that re-emerges those _installed_ packages that
die when updating the kernel

Comment 3 Lutz Lehmann 2005-12-12 07:57:31 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)  
> emerge sys-kernel/module-rebuild  
  
sorry, didn't find that one. 
 
actually, it doesn't do all I need, does it?  
 
nx6110 ~ # module-rebuild list 
** Packages which I will emerge are: 
        =media-libs/svgalib-1.9.21-r1 
        =net-wireless/ndiswrapper-1.5 
        =sys-fs/fuse-2.4.1-r1 
nx6110 ~ #                      
 
what about x11-drm and captive? 
 
nx6110 ~ # module-rebuild populate 
** Module already exists in moduledb. 
** Setting media-libs/svgalib-1.9.21-r1; rebuild=1. 
** Module already exists in moduledb. 
** Setting net-wireless/ndiswrapper-1.5; rebuild=1. 
** Module already exists in moduledb. 
** Setting sys-fs/fuse-2.4.1-r1; rebuild=1. 
** Adding x11-base/x11-drm-20050502 to moduledb. 
** Adding x11-base/x11-drm-20051028 to moduledb. 
nx6110 ~ # module-rebuild list 
** Packages which I will emerge are: 
        =media-libs/svgalib-1.9.21-r1 
        =net-wireless/ndiswrapper-1.5 
        =sys-fs/fuse-2.4.1-r1 
        =x11-base/x11-drm-20050502 
        =x11-base/x11-drm-20051028 
nx6110 ~ # 
 
we won't install both versions of drm, do we?!?