emerge --info ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Portage 2.1.2_pre1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-3.4.6/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 VIA C3 Ezra Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:50:01 +0000 --snip-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- when running /usr/sbin/etc-update the 'find' command is erroring -------------- localhost # etc-update /var/tmp /etc /opt/glftpd/etc /opt/glftpd/ftp-data /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /etc/env.d /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo Scanning Configuration files... find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] Exiting: Nothing left to do; exiting. :) find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] localhost # emerge -av portage -------------------------------- The above also includes the uncommenting of lines 440-443 and 450-451 in /usr/sbin/etc-update
you didnt say what version of find you actually have
localhost # find --version GNU find version 4.3.0 Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION FTS
(In reply to comment #0) > The above also includes the uncommenting of lines 440-443 and 450-451 in > /usr/sbin/etc-update Go ahead and comment those lines again and then add 'set -x' at the very top of the file (below #!/bin/bash, of course). That will give us a trace showing the exact commands that cause the errors.
Created attachment 97367 [details] set -x in etc-update
yeah, looks like we have misquoting ... ... + find_opts='-iname ._cfg????_*' ... ++ find /etc/ -iname ._cfg0000_.bash_logout ._cfg0000_.bash_profile ._cfg0000_.bashrc '!' -name '.*~' '!' -name '.*.bak' find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] ... # touch /etc/._cfg0000_passwd # touch /etc/._cfg0000_fstab # cd /etc # etc-update Scanning Configuration files... find: paths must precede expression: ._cfg0000_passwd Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-Olevel] [-D help|tree|stat|opt] [path...] [expression] ...
Created attachment 97375 [details, diff] turn off file name globbing during expansion of ${find_opts} This is fixed in svn r4476. If you save this patch as /tmp/no_globbing.patch, then you can apply it as follows: cd /usr/lib/portage patch -p0 < /tmp/no_globbing.patch
This patch appears to fix the issue. Thanks
*** Bug 148124 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This has been released in 2.1.2_pre1-r1.
