Bug 247231

Summary:	app-emulation/open-vm-tools could benefit from using module-rebuild
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christian Schlotter <again>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christian Schlotter 2008-11-17 17:37:27 UTC

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:

Comment 1 Christian Schlotter 2008-11-17 17:42:45 UTC

Maybe I use module-rebuild in a wrong way:
After
$ module-rebuild populate
open-vm-tools is correctly added to module-rebuild's database.

Comment 2 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-19 11:38:03 UTC

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...

Comment 3 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-31 00:23:07 UTC

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?

Comment 4 Christian Schlotter 2008-12-31 13:33:45 UTC

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!

Comment 5 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-31 13:35:37 UTC

Ok, thanks for testing that.  I'm going to mark this as WORKSFORME then...  5:)