I recently updated my squid from 2.5.12-r1 to 2.6.3 and found to my dismay that all my custom error pages in /etc/squid/errors had been overwritten and I was never prompted to update them with etc-update. Only after the fact did I notice that the errors directory really just a symlink to /usr/share/squid/errors/English and given my experience with gentoo thus far, I assumed any config files in /etc would not be overwritten without my consent. I didn't see any obvious warnings when installing or upgrading squid, perhaps this is something that could be added so other system administrators know about the risk before updating squid. Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 148 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:00:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=opteron -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=opteron -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dlloader dri eds elibc_glibc emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gif gstreamer gtk2 imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jpeg kernel_linux lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl opengl pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i810 video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
/etc/squid/errors is a symlink to : - for squid 2.4 /usr/lib/errors/English - for squid 2.6 /usr/share/squid/errors/English If you changed those errors, you should be able to find them in the /usr/lib/errors/English, because AFAIK portage don't remove files that have been changed by the user, although it might overwrite them if that location isn't in CONFIG_PROTECT. If you really want those files protected you should add those file to CONFIG_PROTECT or replace /etc/squid/errors symlink with a directory containing your custom error templates. Closed as INVALID.
*** Bug 151304 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
