Bug 43443 – Missing /etc/DIR_COLORS

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson 2004-03-01 23:05:11 UTC]

I just tried the hardened-x86-2004.0 profile, I installed from scratch(stage1) and I always get this error message when logging in because there is no /etc/DIR_COLORS file anymore:

dircolors: `/etc/DIR_COLORS': No such file or directory

I need to remove the "eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`" line from me ~/.bashrc to prevent this...

[Comment 1 Scott Taylor (RETIRED) 2004-03-01 23:22:00 UTC]

/etc/DIR_COLORS is supposed to be in all of the stage* tarballs, the profile you
choose shouldn't matter:

Green data # tar -tjvf stage1-x86-selinux-20040211.tar.bz2 | grep DIR
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2339 2004-02-11 19:58:38 ./etc/DIR_COLORS
Green data # tar -tjvf stage1-x86-pie-ssp-2004.0-20040210.tar.bz2 | grep DIR
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2339 2004-02-09 23:58:32 ./etc/DIR_COLORS

Perhaps DIR_COLORS should be added to the baselayout package, to keep this fresh?

[Comment 2 Brandon Hale (RETIRED) 2004-03-12 18:08:28 UTC]

Az, thoughts on comment #1?

[Comment 3 Gregg Casillo 2004-03-17 12:11:12 UTC]

I just ran into the same problem with stage1-x86-20040218.

[Comment 4 Ed Catmur 2004-03-23 10:39:27 UTC]

This is a problem with all profiles; it is accidental that it showed up first on hardened.

Looking at the packages, it seems to me that /etc/DIR_COLORS should be owned and installed by sys-apps/coreutils. As it happens, the patchset to coreutils contains a DIR_COLORS so it should be easy to modify the coreutils ebuild to install it.

[Comment 5 Ed Catmur 2004-03-23 10:58:01 UTC]

Created attachment 27877 [details, diff]
Proposed patch to coreutils

[Comment 6 Joshua Kinard 2004-04-11 03:53:20 UTC]

*** Bug 47434 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 solar (RETIRED) 2004-04-25 19:46:17 UTC]

This is not something we can exactly fix after the fact. 
New releases should be out within the week.