While I was upgrading rp-pppoe I noticed it, but I think it is a genreal problem with all ebuilds. The problem is that symlinks are not preserved under CONFIG_PROTECT, but overwritten instead. In this speciffic case, restarting pppoe (or rebooting) would have rendered it not reachable form the Net. And it is locked in a server room... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cd /etc/ppp; rm pppoe.conf; touch provider.conf; ln -s provider.conf pppoe.conf 2. emerge rp-pppoe Actual Results: # ll /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4795 Jun 16 13:08 /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf Expected Results: # ll /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jun 16 12:53 /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf -> provider.conf I guess it is a small tweak in emerge's handling of files (to include symlinks), but python is not a language I understand.
I remember fixing this a long time ago... You're certain that nothing else made it's way into the equation here? You can duplicate this on demand?
I just reproduced it, the followig way: sata root # cd /etc/ppp; rm pppoe.conf; touch provider.conf; ln -s provider.conf pppoe.conf rm: cannot remove `pppoe.conf': No such file or directory sata ppp # ll /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 21 19:21 /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf -> provider.conf sata ppp # emerge rp-pppoe -a These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] net-dialup/rp-pppoe-3.5-r1 +X 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-dialup/rp-pppoe-3.5-r1 to / [snip] mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/rp-pppoe-3.5-r1/image//etc/ppp mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/rp-pppoe-3.5-r1/image//etc/ppp/plugins echo "# Directory created by rp-pppoe for kernel-mode plugin" > /var/tmp/portage/rp-pppoe-3.5-r1/image//etc/ppp/plugins/README # L2TP Type 'adsl-setup' to configure the software. gzipping doc: CHANGES [snip] --- /etc/ --- /etc/ppp/ >>> /etc/ppp/plugins/ >>> /etc/ppp/plugins/README >>> /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf >>> /etc/ppp/firewall-standalone >>> /etc/ppp/firewall-masq >>> /etc/ppp/pppoe-server-options >>> /etc/ppp/rp-pppoe-gui/ --- /etc/init.d/ >>> /etc/init.d/rp-pppoe * Use adsl-setup to configure your dialup connection * Caching service dependencies... >>> net-dialup/rp-pppoe-3.5-r1 merged. >>> Recording net-dialup/rp-pppoe in "world" favorites file... >>> clean: No packages selected for removal. >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. sata ppp # ll /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4795 Jun 21 19:22 /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf sata ppp # portageq config-protect /etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control sata ppp # portageq config_protect_mask /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d sata ppp # emerge -V Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-KK1_sata) Yes, I think I can reproduce it every time. Tell me what you need to debug.
If you can reproduce this with a stable portage please re-open.
I have a feeling this bug still exists. Did you try reproducing it before closing it?
Well, at least for me, it seems OK now. # emerge -V Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11.10-fbks i686) Tried my suggested test and with the above portage and net-dialup/rp-pppoe-3.5-r11 it didn't overwrite the symlink. (pppoe didn't install it's default /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf because of that, but that is another story. At least I didn't loose data). Jason, can you provide a test case that supports your feeling? (BTW, I have this feeling too, just that I cannot prove it now). If not, we'd better close this one.
Nope. My feeling came from a similar bug with dispatch-conf.
