I've done an etc-update after merging a new portage as instructed by the ebuild process. As a result all my /etc files likes fstab, modules.autoload, etc. reverted to some default values making my system unbootable and unusable. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.etc-update 2. 3. Actual Results: see details Expected Results: how about never overwriting my /etc files in any circumstances ? Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2, glibc-2.2.5-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1700+ GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio. org/pub/Linux/distributions/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="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt cups encode gif java jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell svga truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline tcltk guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl mozilla gphoto2 scanner" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
not the fault of etc-update #etc-update <enter> 1) Replace original with update 2) Delete update, keeping original as is 3) Interactively merge original with update 4) Show differences again don't just update every file blind !!!!
