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This may sound harsh, but don't use automerge. Portage/etc-update cannot |
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possibly know about every config change you (or the ebuilds) can make. I assume |
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etc-update (rightly) doesn't even attempt this and merges based on string |
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analysis without thought as to what the settings actually mean, leading to breakage. |
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If you never touched a file it's probably save to just overwrite the existing |
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one. You always have the backup in case it wasn't save ;) |
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That's how I do it anyways. |
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On a different if related topic, I'd recommend running |
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emerge -DuapvN world |
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instead of emerge --update world (aka emerge -u world) |
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That stands for: |
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- --deep (update dependencies as well and not just packages you explicitly |
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installed) |
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- --update |
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- --ask |
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- --verbose (shows USE flags and download size) |
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- --newuse (recompiles packages whose USE flags changed, shown by a * next to the |
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flag in the output of av) |
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Steffen |
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Mark wrote: |
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> I'm having a problem after I did emerge --update world last night. |
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> After it finished, it said 75 files in /etc needed updating. OK, I've |
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> seen this before and have made mistakes with it. So this time, I |
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> copied all of /etc to /home/mark/etc.old, and then ran etc-update. I |
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> then let it auto merge everything and rebooted. |
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