16535 – mirrorselect 0.1 or 0.2 mess the /etc/make.conf !

Bug 16535 - mirrorselect 0.1 or 0.2 mess the /etc/make.conf !

Summary: mirrorselect 0.1 or 0.2 mess the /etc/make.conf !

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 16315

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High major
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2003-02-28 01:21 UTC by gentoo
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description gentoo 2003-02-28 01:21:16 UTC

When running mirrorselect (on 0.1 and on 0.2) it screw up the /etc/make.conf by
adding the dialog and control caracters IN the file instead of in the console.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge mirrorselect
2. mirrorselect
3.

Actual Results:  
Need to manually clean /etc/make.conf to get back to normal.

Expected Results:  
Working nicely ;-)

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-02-28 04:25:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16315 ***

Comment 2 Jason Van Cleve 2004-09-16 12:43:01 UTC

This doesn't really look like a dup' of 16315, which latter doesn't seem to address the control characters problem.  When I ran mirrorselect as instructed in the QuickInstall guide, it first gave an error about not finding "portageq", but then it went on to complete mangle my make.conf file.  This using stage 2 of the latest 2004.2 universal live CD from ftp://gentoo.osuosl.org.