All in summary. Patches included. Maybe ebuild should be simplified with higher EAPI?
Created attachment 248426 [details, diff] conf-update patch
Created attachment 248428 [details, diff] ebuild patch
Oh! I forgot to write why it is important! It is, because conf-update replaces all config files with new ones without prompting when using grep-2.7
(In reply to comment #3) > It is, because conf-update replaces > all config files with new ones without prompting when using grep-2.7 Yes, that is exactly what happened to me yesterday... ;-( Thanks for the fix! Torsten
The patch works for me too, thanks. Fortunately just *one* config file got mistakenly replaced for me.
Patch looks sane to me. I'll dare applying. Thanks for the patch and for testing! +*conf-update-1.0-r1 (04 Oct 2010) + + 04 Oct 2010; Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org> + +conf-update-1.0-r1.ebuild, +files/conf-update-1.0-regex-classes.patch: + Integrate Jan Psota's regex patch ("[:space:]" to "[[:space:]]") from bug + #338414 + Raising to critical and converting into a stable request to.. - get more QA eyes on it - push this fix to everyone soon Old title was: app-portage/conf-update-1.0 is not grep-2.7 compatible because of [:space:]
All tests passed successful here on x86.
amd64 done
stable x86, thanks Andreas
PING alpha, pcc rather urgent in my eyes as grep-2.7 is stable on both of these.
alpha stable
ppc done; closing as last arch