Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: breaking change to app-misc/mc user-configuration handling

[Lars Wendler]

Hi Marek,

thank you very much for wqriting this up. I highly appreciate this.

On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:15:06 +0100 Marek Szuba wrote:

>Title: >=app-misc/mc-4.8.27 to drop support for ~/.mc
>Author: Marek Szuba <marecki@g.o>
>Posted: 2021-08-19
>Revision: 1
>News-Item-Format: 2.0
>Display-If-Installed: app-misc/mc
>
>app-misc/mc versions between 4.8.1 and 4.8.26, inclusive, would look
>for their user configuration in two possible places:
>
>  * if built with USE=-xdg, only the legacy directory ~/.mc is used;
>
>  * if built with USE=xdg, mc uses appropriate XDG user directories
>    (e.g. ~/.config/mc, ~/.local/share/mc) if present and attempts
>    to automatically migrate the contents of ~/.mc otherwise.
>
>However, starting with version 4.8.27 Midnight Commander will use _only
>XDG user directories_ for its configuration and no longer automatically
>migrate the contents of ~/.mc. For more information, see:
>
>     https://midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.27
>     https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/3682
>
>For everyone who currently uses app-misc/mc[-xdg], or has not started
>mc for so long that it hasn't had a chance to migrate its
>configuration, upgrading to 4.8.27 or newer will result in Midnight
>Commander effectively reverting to default user configuration. In
>order to prevent this from happening, make sure automatic migration is
>available:
>
>     echo 'app-misc/mc' >> /etc/portage/package.use

I suppose that should be:

  echo 'app-misc/mc xdg' >> /etc/portage/package.use

>     emerge --oneshot <app-misc/mc-4.8.27
>
>and have every user on your system with ~/.mc present run mc at least

run mc _and_ mcedit once

>once prior to the version upgrade.
>
>No action is required of everyone currently using app-misc/mc

s/of/for/  ?

>with USE=xdg enabled.
>

Cheers
Lars
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Lars Wendler
Gentoo package maintainer
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