[gentoo-dev] Experiences with rc5: emerge clobbering its own config, depmod & emerge screaming, BitchX symlink error

[Iain Craig]

Hi guys,

Apologies if any of this has been covered previously. This is just my
problem list when installing rc5, which is otherwise wonderful.

1. First off, "emerge rsync" appears to clobber /etc/make.conf and
/etc/make.globals. Admittedly my CONFIG_PROTECT was "", allowing such a
clobber, but the clobber reset my CONFIG_PROTECT to the default; I think
this is by design but is slightly annoying.

2. Depmod -a always shouts about unresolved symbols in all modules, although
the modules still work fine. From #gentoo I gather this is a known problem
with rc5, and doesn't stop anything working.

3. After an emerge I get a warning about all missing info files. Again, I
believe this is a known issue that doesn't stop things working.

4. BitchX installation creates incorrect symlink. Following "emerge
bitchx-1.0.18-r2.ebuild", the link /usr/bin/BitchX pointed to something
non-existant, instead of the correct /usr/bin/BitchX-1.0c18. Unfortunately I
can't remember where precisely it did link as I've already pointed it to
where it should be. My setting were default USE flags, CONFIG_PROTECT="",
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu", CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe",
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe"

Hope this helps. Great work folks, I love the OS.

Brgrds,
Iain C