Hi! Fdutils apparently should have a floppy disk parameter table at /etc/fdprm. The ebuild, however, tries to install it in place of /etc, and an error message is produced (although fdutils is merged): " * Messages for package app-misc/fdutils-5.5-r1: * * Installation of a regular file is blocked by a directory: * '/etc' * This file will be merged with a different name: * '/etc.backup.0000' * " If I move /etc/.backup.0000 into /etc/fdprm (which does no exist after the merge), setfdprm however complains about wrong syntax in the file: # $ setfdprm -p /dev/fd0 720/720 Syntax error in line 11: '"360/360": ' # Steps to reproduce: 1. emerge fdutils Actual behaviour: Notice the error about it trying overwrite /etc, and observe no /etc/fdprm Expected results: /etc/fdprm should exist 2. move /etc.backup.0000 to /etc/fdprm 3. run setfdprm -p /dev/fd0 720/720 Actual behaviour: setfdprm doesn not seem to understand te syntax. Expected results: setfdprm should understand the syntax from the file
Apparently I ran into exactly the same problem / behaviour. -- All ebuilds >=app-misc/fdutils-5.4.20020222-r1 seem to want to replace /etc by something seemingly intended to replace /etc/fdprm . -- At the same time, the tools contained by the package appear to support the old syntax spoken by the to-be-replaced /etc/fdprm file. They'd then obviously fail once /etc/fdprm were replaced by the new file (brought by the new ebuilds). I'd note that all pre- 5.4.20020222-r1 ebuilds have been also carefully got rid of from the tree.
I fixed the install that was bothering me for a while already.
