Bug 83258

Summary:	Genkernel needs post-build, post-reboot scripting of packages to emerge
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jeff Kowalczyk <jeff.kowalczyk>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	mike
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jeff Kowalczyk 2005-02-24 21:03:23 UTC

After I build a new kernel with genkernel and reboot, I need to emerge several hardware-related packages. For example, I run:

LIRC_OPTS="--with-x --with-driver=hauppauge --with-major=61 --with-port=none --with-irq=none" emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx lirc ivtv

It would be very helpful to have a standard configuration file as part of genkernel that could be called uniformly across machines. Something like:

genkernel --postconfig all

which would run a configured list of emerges, along with an optional command prefix, as above.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-25 04:49:26 UTC

man genkernel -- The --callback option is already there.

Comment 2 Mike Nerone 2008-04-27 23:47:37 UTC

Incidentally, I think what Jeff was asking for was something to automatically recompile packages that install kernel modules. This functionality is covered by sys-kernel/module-rebuild, which was created just a few weeks after this bug.