Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Thinking out loud

[Lisa Seelye <lisa@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 11:33, Lisa Seelye wrote:
> So I was thinking (out loud) that if there was a facility to rebuild all
> of the things that depend on openssl after a new openssl has been
> compiled, perhaps still in the same sandbox, then we may eliminate some
> need for revdep-rebuild.


Something else hit me while I was recompiling modules (i have a shell
script to automate it) for a new kernel.

Why not some functionality to rebuild kernel modules.  Perhaps, using
today's terminology:

Alsa, lm_sensors, Nvidia-kernel, Nvidia-glx, and others will have a
line:

provides kernel-module

You can issue the command:

emerge --rebuildmodules

or something like that after rebooting and Portage will resolve all
sorts of fun stuff and then insert these new modules into the
/lib/modules place.


-- 
Regards,
-Lisa
<Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior>

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