At the end of emerge portage, if any /etc files are outdated (very common) one is told to do: emerge --help config to get help on finding the outdated /etc files. emerge --help config no longer produces the output it once did, either by Design or by Bug. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge portage emerge --help config Actual Results: >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. * IMPORTANT: 3 config files in '/etc' need updating. * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. localhost portage # emerge --help config *** Deprecated use of action 'config', use '--config' instead localhost portage # emerge --help --config localhost portage # emerge --help-config usage: emerge [options] emerge: error: no such option: --help-config localhost portage # emerge --help_config usage: emerge [options] emerge: error: no such option: --help_config localhost portage # emerge --config !!! config can only take a single package atom at this time localhost portage # emerge --help emerge: the other white meat (command-line interface to the Portage system) Usage: emerge [ options ] [ action ] [ ebuildfile | tbz2file | dependency ] [ ... ] emerge [ options ] [ action ] < system | world > emerge < --sync | --metadata | --info > emerge --resume [ --pretend | --ask | --skipfirst ] emerge --help [ system | world | --sync ] Options: -[abBcCdDefgGhikKlnNoOpqPsStuvV] [--oneshot] [--newuse] [--noconfmem] [ --color < y | n > ] [ --columns ] [--nospinner] [ --deep ] [--with-bdeps < y | n > ] Actions: [ --clean | --depclean | --prune | --regen | --search | --unmerge ] For more help try 'emerge --help --verbose' or consult the man page. localhost portage # emerge --help config *** Deprecated use of action 'config', use '--config' instead Expected Results: Something about find /etc and .cfg or somesuch. I can always find the dang things once I find a sample, but always forget what they look like... I liked it better when it told me how to find the dang things, personally, even if it's an extra line of useless output (among millions) to uber-geeks.
I lied. I can NOT find the altered /etc files. Did you guys do something silly like make them foo.conf.0 or something I'm NOT going to be able to find easily?! If so: Yuk... Please, reconsider this decision, or at least update the emerge --help config to do something useful so I can find the dang things.
It's been moved to `man emerge`. You got the old message because it was an older version of portage that performed the upgrade. The new version has a different message. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 137483 ***
