When I updating base packages, configuration in /etc/conf.d set to default :( /etc/conf.d/clock /etc/conf.d/consolefonts /etc/conf.d/keymaps Reproducible: Always
This is likely unrelated to etc-update, but to Portage's internal config handling. Check the output of "emerge --info | grep PROTECT" CONFIG_PROTECT tells portage to not automatically replace files in the given directories, so they get handled by etc-update or dispatch-conf. CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK allows you to then tell Portage that certain locations within CONFIG_PROTECT should have their files automatically replaced (so they don't get handled by etc-update or dispatch-conf). If you're still having problems, please post the full output of "emerge --info" and describe which options you're using in etc-update.
The real problem is Portage's --noconfmem (or the absence thereof in default EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS) as it causes necessary (e.g. incompatible) config file changes to be disregarded. I did never care to look, if this feature simply buggy or conceptually broken, but changed it in make.conf locally. A proper version of a feature to deal with config files changes transparently would store a hash of the installed "vanilla" config files sans comments and do a comparison, if the config file (again: sans comments) coming with a newer ebuild differs to it (instead the user modified config file) to deduct, if it may be necessary to pester a human with it.
(In reply to comment #0) > When I updating base packages, configuration in /etc/conf.d set to default :( As said in comment #1, please post CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK settings. Perhaps you've got CONFIG_PROTECT="-*"? (In reply to comment #2) > The real problem is Portage's --noconfmem I haven't seen anything in comment #0 to suggest that --noconfmem is relevant to this bug, since confmem deals with things not being merged rather than config protection.
Created attachment 181998 [details] emerge --info
Overwriting /etc/conf.d files happens when I call bootstraping $ /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh $ emerge -e world
(In reply to comment #5) > Overwriting /etc/conf.d files happens when I call bootstraping > > $ /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh > $ emerge -e world > I don't know where you got the idea to call bootstrap.sh, but it has CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" hardcoded internally.
Since bug #247776, there's already a warning produced by emerge when CONFIG_PROTECT is empty. Reassigning to base-system in case they want to change the behavior of bootstrap.sh with respect to CONFIG_PROTECT.
i dont see the point. dont run bootstrap.sh on a stage3+. if it breaks, you get the pieces.
I am porting gentoo on my pda. So i need bootstrap :) details about pda here http://www.kaa.org.ua/ru/asus-p535/hardware.html
that is irrelevant. bootstrap is run natively on the device by catalyst. if you run it by hand, you better know what you're doing (including clobbering of config files).