Bug 166844 – baselayout should WARN for "things might break at your next reboot", not INFO

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description dolphinling 2007-02-14 15:52:19 UTC]

The sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.9 ebuild gives 

INFO: postinst
Please be sure to update all pending '._cfg*' files in /etc,
else things might break at your next reboot!  You can use 'etc-update'
to accomplish this:

In my book, anything telling me "things might break" is a warning. (If not, it should at least use elog so it gets logged by default.)

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2007-02-14 16:04:01 UTC]

i dont really know how useful that'd be ... it's meant as a reminder, not a warning, so it's shown in every baselayout ebuild ...

i dont use elog myself, so i dont know how cluttered it is

plus, users should know to run `etc-update` after all packages, not just baselayout ...

[Comment 2 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2007-02-17 00:05:40 UTC]

Exactly.

This should be well documented?

[Comment 3 nm (RETIRED) 2007-02-17 02:22:04 UTC]

Nothing to do on our end. We already talk about proper use of etc-update, and we have no control over what goes into the ebuild itself. If you want to do ewarn instead, go for it.

[Comment 4 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2007-08-08 02:26:33 UTC]

I think newer portage versions handle this.
Re-open if you disagree