okay, this is somewhat strange: I found this tool and wanted to know what it is for, so I did: # archive-conf Usage: archive-conf /CONFIG/FILE [/CONFIG/FILE...] right, this isn't very helpful, so let's append -h: # archive-conf -h dispatch-conf: Error copying /root/-h to /etc/config-archive/root/-h: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/-h'; fatal Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/archive-conf", line 99, in ? archive_conf() File "/usr/sbin/archive-conf", line 95, in archive_conf dispatch_conf.file_archive_post_process(archive) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/dispatch_conf.py", line 162, in file_archive_post_process os.rename(archive + '.dist.new', archive + '.dist') OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Boom! Apparently, this tool doesn't catch many exceptions. So let's just try to find out what it does if an existing file is specified: # archive-conf /etc/make.conf Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/archive-conf", line 99, in ? archive_conf() File "/usr/sbin/archive-conf", line 95, in archive_conf dispatch_conf.file_archive_post_process(archive) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/dispatch_conf.py", line 162, in file_archive_post_process os.rename(archive + '.dist.new', archive + '.dist') OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Boom! Of course it doesn't have a man page, it is also not mentioned in man emerge or man portage, so... What exactly is the use of this piece of code? Merry christmas... # emerge info Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 242 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=opteron -ggdb3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=opteron -ggdb3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg cvs debug distlocks keeptemp keepwork multilib-strict nostrip sandbox sfperms test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org" USE="amd64 X acpi alsa audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 chipcard crypt cups curl debug dvd eds emboss encode esd expat fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jp2 jpeg kde lcms ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff mhash mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly objc objc-gc ofx ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime quotes readline sdl spell ssl svg tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales utf8 vorbis wxgtk1 xml xml2 xpm xrandr xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I doubt that anyone even uses archive-conf. Does anybody care if we punt it?
This is fx(In reply to comment #0) > What exactly is the use of this piece of code? It's automates the process of archiving a config file. It's intended to be used just before the file is edited. The traceback is fixed in svn r4903.
This has been released in 2.1.2_rc1-r3.
