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On 09/06/11 12:06, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> why you making so much work for yourself?
>
> set the /usr/src/linux symlink to each set of installed sources in turn,
>  run emerge @module-rebuild
>  or run module-rebuild rebuild
>
> you could even script it
>
> cd /usr/src
> for I in linux-*
> do
>   ln -sfn $I linux
>   module-rebuild rebuils
> done
>
> Fixing my bash syntax errors is left as an exercise for the interested reader
Thanks very much!

I am a former Arch user, so I was used for a lot of inconvenience while
doing such things, but gentoo seems to make my life easier and easier.

Ignas