I prefer to run with vga=extended on most of my systems, which gives me a nice 43-line display when passed to the kernel. Using this requires that I disable the consolefont script. rc-update del consolefont, no problem. reboot and I get the nice text terminal that I am looking for. Unfortunately, it doesn't stay that way. I dunno what it is that keeps re-enabling the consolefont rc-script, but it is annoying. Once deleted it should not be reinstated by any package. Thanks
my guess is when you update baselayout it setups the 'base' rcscripts again you could just do what i do, comment out CONSOLEFONT in /etc/rc.conf ... the comments above it say that is how you can use the default (or vga based) font ill leave it to azarah to see if tweaking needs to be done ... but could you verify that it is indeed baselayout that is adding consolefont back to your rcscripts ? just `rc-update del consolefont` and then `emerge baselayout` and see if its back
You are indeed correct. baselayout is the offending package. I will comment it out in rc.conf, as suggested, but still maintain that this ebuild is broken. It does not matter _what_ service I delete, updating baselayout will reconfigure my system to add that service back into the runlevels it started in. That's just bad. I should _always_ be able to reconfigure my system however I want it without expecting a package to overwrite those settings later. It shouldn't be too tough to script: for file in {list of rc-scripts in package}; do if [ -r $file ]; then {update file}; else {echo something here maybe}; fi; done A little basic but better than current behavior IMHO. Which doesn't handle the initial emerge but would handle the _substantially_ more common update case.
yeah it'll be up to azarah to tweak it baselayout is a special case to rcscripts + auto setup which is why these assumptions exist in the pkg ... its the 'base' of Gentoo :)
Its actually not a bug in baselayout. If ROOT == "/", then it 'should' not install the base symlinks. Seems like portage do not set ROOT during src_install: --------------------------------------------- >>> Install baselayout-1.8.6.3 into /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image/ category sys-apps * *** ROOT: man: gzipping man page: .keep gzipping man page: .keep info: gzipping GNU info page: .keep strip: /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image//sbin/runscript /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image//sbin/start-stop-daemon /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image//sbin/init /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image//sbin/halt /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image//sbin/killall5 /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image//sbin/runlevel /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image//sbin/shutdown /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image//sbin/sulogin /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image//lib/rcscripts/filefuncs.so /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image//bin/last /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image//bin/mesg /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image//bin/utmpdump /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image//bin/wall >>> Completed installing into /space/var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.3/image/ >>> Merging sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.3 to /tmp/foo Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/ebuild", line 37, in ? a=portage.doebuild(pargs[0],x,getroot(),debug=debug) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1309, in doebuild return merge(settings["CATEGORY"],settings["PF"],settings["D"],settings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,myebuild=settings["EBUILD"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1539, in merge return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4033, in merge return self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3715, in treewalk counter=db[destroot]["vartree"].dbapi.counter_tick() KeyError: /tmp/foo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick, also got a traceback .... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # emerge info Portage 2.0.46-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.5.59 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.twobit.net/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/space/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 slang readline gpm berkdb gdbm tcpd pam libwww ssl lm_sensors mmx sse mitshm ngpt nptl esd jpeg gif png sdl oggvorbis lcms gnome gtk X qt opengl cups perl python tcltk guile ruby xml xml2 java fbcon svga tex bonobo oss libg++ aalib gs ungif gtkhtml pdflib gb libgda spell evo dvd decss css xv dga encode avi mpeg truetype moznomail moznoirc" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j6" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="ccache digest cvs sandbox noclean noauto prelink"
Wow. This is old... This is also fixed.
