Summary: | etc-update misses updates in /usr/share/X11 (xkb) | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Andreas Thalhammer <andreas.thalhammer> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
Status: | VERIFIED FIXED | ||
Severity: | minor | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2008.0 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Andreas Thalhammer
2008-12-01 21:29:37 UTC
The new xkb config files were from the 12th october 2008... Must have come with my update to x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 ("~ppc" for the time, pulling all "~ppc" dependencies). Please post your `emerge --info' too. Once upon a time (xkeyboard-config <= 0.9), the xkb files were purposefully added to CONFIG_PROTECT, even though they are installed under /usr/share rather than /etc. Almost no-one ever customized those files, and many people got sick of managing all those files with etc-update **. All that changed on Sep 26, 2007 when the new 1.1 ebuild refrained from adding /usr/share/X11/xkb to CONFIG_PROTECT. ** those people probably didn't know about the slick automated merging of non-customized files by dispatch-conf! So, after your recent upgrade of xkeyboard-config from 0.9 to 1.1, the /usr/share/X11/xkb files will never again be treated like config files -- unless you purposefully add /usr/share/X11/xkb back into CONFIG_PROTECT, which I doubt is what you really want (you don't actually customize any of those files, do you?) In short, this is one time upgrade issue caused by the change in policy of these ebuilds; everything will work ok from now on, and there is no reason to change etc-update or change the ebuilds back. Do you agree, so it's ok to close this bug? I agree. Thank you Wormo for making it clear. |