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On Sunday 26 February 2006 13:26, John Blinka <jblinka@××××××.com> wrote |
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about 'Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken': |
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> Success at last! Here's what I did on the affected box: |
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> 1) emerge -C cups. |
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> After removing cups, I noted that the /etc/cups directory |
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> still existed with all of its old contents. None of it had |
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> been removed. |
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> 2) cd /etc/cups |
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> mv mime.types mime.types.old |
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> mv mime.convs mime.convs.old |
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> 3) emerge cups |
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> After this step, a new, different mime.types was installed. |
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> It was identical to the mime.types file on my unaffected systems. |
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> Previous attempts to do steps 1) and 3) above, but not 2) resulted |
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> in an unchanged, obsolete, and incorrect version of mime.types. |
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That's because /etc is CONFIG_PROTECT'd, right? Shouldn't you have gotten |
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some message about config files that needed updating? Or, is there some |
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special magic in the ebuild that was causing this problem? |
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In the last case, I'd wager a bug would be appropriate. |
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"If there's one thing we've established over the years, |
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it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest |
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clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." |
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-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh |
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