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On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:52:39 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > > The comments there say that if you run etc-update right after the |
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> > > emerge all is well (but this isn't sufficient for people who use |
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> > > screen, detatch, and log out). Someone also mentioned |
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> > > dispatch-conf working. No one mentioned cfg-update, which I use |
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> > > (and I believe neil does as well). Could the problem be dependent |
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> > > on which configuration file updater one uses? |
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> No, he is using conf-update, which is a different utility. |
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Yes, and it appears that conf-update handles orphaned ._cfg files poorly. |
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Whether these files are allowed to exist or not it not really relevant, |
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it should handle the situation, time for a bug report. |
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Incidentally, if anyone gets hit by this, the simple fix is to re-emerge |
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shadow with --noconfmem, which installs the missing files. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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