After emerging packages I get the usual message: * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. * IMPORTANT: 7 config files in /etc need updating. * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. typing emerge --help config in effect tells me that I need to do a : # find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*' but this command returns nothing despite the ._cfg????_* files being there. I asked around and think I established that the problem is that for Mac OS X - the /etc dir is a symlink (to /private/etc/). So, # find /private/etc -iname '._cfg????_*' works. As does # find -L /etc -iname '._cfg????_*' (follow symlinks). Should this be something that can be changed for the whole of portage (im guessing the added -L won't break linux) or is it safer just to make a patch for macos X ? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I thought this functionality was patched a long time ago. What version of portage do you have installed? Actually, the output from `emerge --info` is generally helpful for solving bugs. Thanks!
root# emerge --info Portage 2.0.51-r14 (default-darwin/macos/10.3, gcc-3.3, libsystem-7.1-r0, 7.7.0 Power Macintosh) ================================================================= System uname: 7.7.0 Power Macintosh powerpc macos-20041118 Python: [2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11)] distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: [Not Present] sys-devel/automake: [Not Present] sys-devel/binutils: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: 7.1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc ncurses nls png ppc-macos readline" Unset: LDFLAGS
I think this is related to, but not exactly, href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60721 this is the bug for etc-update that had the same problem Should the documentation in 'emerge --help config' perhaps suggest users use 'etc-update' as opposed to find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*' ?
From the bottom of emerge --help config: etc-update is also available to aid in the merging of these files. It provides a vimdiff interactive merging setup and can auto-merge trivial changes. If your version of portage does not display this message, then please update to the latest version.
