| 1 |
Title: >=app-misc/mc-4.8.27 to drop support for ~/.mc |
| 2 |
Author: Marek Szuba <marecki@g.o> |
| 3 |
Posted: 2021-08-19 |
| 4 |
Revision: 1 |
| 5 |
News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
| 6 |
Display-If-Installed: app-misc/mc |
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
app-misc/mc versions between 4.8.1 and 4.8.26, inclusive, would look |
| 9 |
for their user configuration in two possible places: |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
* if built with USE=-xdg, only the legacy directory ~/.mc is used; |
| 12 |
|
| 13 |
* if built with USE=xdg, mc uses appropriate XDG user directories |
| 14 |
(e.g. ~/.config/mc, ~/.local/share/mc) if present and attempts |
| 15 |
to automatically migrate the contents of ~/.mc otherwise. |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
However, starting with version 4.8.27 Midnight Commander will use _only |
| 18 |
XDG user directories_ for its configuration and no longer automatically |
| 19 |
migrate the contents of ~/.mc. For more information, see: |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
https://midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.27 |
| 22 |
https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/3682 |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
For everyone who currently uses app-misc/mc[-xdg], or has not started |
| 25 |
mc for so long that it hasn't had a chance to migrate its configuration, |
| 26 |
upgrading to 4.8.27 or newer will result in Midnight Commander |
| 27 |
effectively reverting to default user configuration. In order to prevent |
| 28 |
this from happening, make sure automatic migration is available: |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
echo 'app-misc/mc' >> /etc/portage/package.use |
| 31 |
emerge --oneshot <app-misc/mc-4.8.27 |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
and have every user on your system with ~/.mc present run mc at least |
| 34 |
once prior to the version upgrade. |
| 35 |
|
| 36 |
No action is required of everyone currently using app-misc/mc |
| 37 |
with USE=xdg enabled. |
| 38 |
|
| 39 |
-- |
| 40 |
Marecki |
Archives