Bug 5019

Summary:	etc-update produces errors
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stephan Wentz <stephan>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	1.2
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stephan Wentz 2002-07-15 07:03:47 UTC

after emerging to gentoolkit 0.1.14 etc-update doesn't work anymore.
seems like the diff-part is broken...
some other people on irc had this problem, too

nemesis etc # etc-update
Scanning Configuration files...
The following is the list of files which need updating, each
configuration file is followed by a list of possible replacement files.
1) /etc/apache/apache-builtin-mods
/etc/apache/._cfg0000_apache-builtin-mods
Please select a file to edit by entering the corresponding number (-1 to exit): 14

/usr/sbin/etc-update: ((: 1 ==  : syntax error: operand expected (error token is
" ")
Showing differences between /etc/postfix/sample/._cfg0000_transport and
/etc/postfix/sample/transport
1) Replace original with update
2) Delete update, keeping original as is
3) Interactively merge original with update
4) Show differences again
Please select from the menu above (-1 to ignore this update):

Comment 1 Brandon Low (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-07-15 09:53:16 UTC

fixed in CVS... I should probably for that matter I'm about to go bump
gentoolkit revisions, sorry about this.