Bug 577276

Summary:	quickpkg should install default configuration files with --include-config=n
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Demelier David <demelier.david>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Demelier David 2016-03-13 10:15:52 UTC

When using quickpkg with no options, this will install files with the following header files on the client machine :

# empty file because --include-config=n when `quickpkg` was used

This breaks a lot of packages including:

- dbus (uses XML files, the # tkoen is invalid)
- gdm, does not start because the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/gdm.conf is invalid
- pulseaudio, because /etc/pulse/* are invalid or empty

I think quickpkg --include-config=n should install vanilla configuration files, just like you have installed it by upstream sources.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2016-03-14 06:14:37 UTC

this isn't possible: quickpkg is creating binpkgs from your installed set of files, and copies are not retained of vanilla config files, nor do we want that.

Comment 2 Demelier David 2016-03-14 07:30:16 UTC

Okay, but will this also happen if FEATURES=buildpkg is used when building packages?