Bug 270058

Summary:	provide set for kernel modules
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gentoo-bugs
Priority:	High
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.