Bug 669290

Summary:	etc-update fails in prefix: uses HOST information for file pattern
Product:	Gentoo/Alt	Reporter:	Olivier Huber <oli.huber>
Component:	Prefix Support	Assignee:	Gentoo Prefix <prefix>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Olivier Huber 2018-10-22 09:54:10 UTC

The setup is the following: gentoo prefix on a OpenSuse host.
when running etc-update to manage updates to the configuration files, the HOST OS information is used to define the get_basename, get_basename_find_opt, get_scan_regexp, get_live_file sh functions. 
Those search for rpmsave, rpmorig, and rpmnew patterns.

Hence, it does not detect the pending cfg updates.

Comment 1 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2018-12-06 12:41:41 UTC

Oh... in Prefix it shouldn't try to detect anything, it should only do Gentoo-style stuff indeed!

Comment 2 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2018-12-06 12:44:15 UTC

does it work correctly for you if you change etc-update OS_RELEASE_ID line to read

OS_RELEASE_ID=$(cat "/path/to/your/prefix"/etc/os-release 2>/dev/null | grep       '^ID=' | cut -d'=' -f2 | sed -e 's/"//g')

?

Comment 3 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2018-12-06 14:36:37 UTC

The fix is in portage-2.3.45