A small change that allows mv options such as -b to be used when selecting a -5 auto-merge.
Created attachment 29036 [details, diff] Removes -i rather than all mv_opts This patch is against /usr/sbin/etc-update from portage-2.0.50-r3. It makes the following change: - export mv_opts="" + export mv_opts=${mv_opts//-i/};
better patch: export mv_opts=" ${mv_opts} " mv_opts="${mv_opts// -i }"
It's probably due to a misunderstanding of the changes, but I can't see the improvement. The new version seems to produce the following for various mv_opts settings: 1. "-i" -> "" 2. "-b -i" or "-i -b" -> extra leading or trailing whitespace 3. "--backup=existing -i --suffix=^" -> mv failure
correct patch: export mv_opts=" ${mv_opts} " mv_opts="${mv_opts// -i / }"
Putting a hold on feature requests for portage as they are drowning out the bugs. Most of these features should be available in the next major version of portage. But for the time being, they are just drowning out the major bugs and delaying the next version's progress. Any bugs that contain patches and any bugs for etc-update or dispatch-conf can be reopened. Sorry, I'm just not good enough with bugzilla. ;)
Reopening for consideration
This has been released in 2.1.2.10.