It seems like some patch failed and there was a file net.rej packaged with baselayout 1.10-r2: otherland /var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.10.1-r2/image # ls -l etc/conf.d/net* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12207 Jul 18 14:33 etc/conf.d/net -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7210 Jul 18 14:33 etc/conf.d/net.rej Or was this one generated on my box? Who know, but that file shouldn't be there :) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r10) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/kde/cvs/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/mss/.portage/mortage /usr/local/portage-overlay/misc /usr/local/portage-overlay/kde-cvs" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aavm acl acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm applypatches arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb dvd dvdr encode esd ethereal expat faad fbcon foomaticdb gd gdbm geoip gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 hbci imap imlib ipv6 irda jabber java javascript jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mozilla moznoirc mpeg ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl operanom2 oss pam pda pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usagi usb video_cards_radeon wmf x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
i already pointed this out to agriffis and it should be fixed in the next release
