Bug 87639 – etc-update does not work nor does gentoo see that it exsists

• Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Eric Vincent Raehn 2005-04-02 00:10:20 UTC]

When I try to run etc-update gentoo says the following error

localhost /etc# etc-update
etc-update: Command not found

Here is my etc-update.conf file

# edit the lines below to your liking
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/portage/cnf/etc-update.conf,v 1.5.2.1 2004/10/22 16:53:30 carpaski Exp $

# mode - 0 for text, 1 for menu (support incomplete)
# note that you need dev-util/dialog installed
mode="0"

# Whether trivial/comment changes should be automerged
eu_automerge="yes"

# arguments used whenever rm is called
rm_opts="-i"

# arguments used whenever mv is called
mv_opts="-i"

# arguments used whenever cp is called
cp_opts="-i"

# pager for use with diff commands (see NOTE_2)
pager="less"
#pager=""

# vim-users: you CAN use vimdiff for diff_command. (see NOTE_1)
diff_command="diff -uN %file1 %file2"
using_editor=0
#diff_command="vim -d %file1 %file2"
#using_editor=1


# vim-users: don't use vimdiff for merging (see NOTE_1)
merge_command="sdiff -s -o %merged %orig %new"



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.etc-update into console
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
etc-update: command not found

Expected Results:  
etc-update should have run

My system is Athlon XP 3200+ 512MB RAM PC3200 nvidia nforce 2

[Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2005-04-02 00:32:01 UTC]

does /usr/lib/portage/bin/etc-update exist?

[Comment 2 Eric Vincent Raehn 2005-04-02 00:38:26 UTC]

Yes it does

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2005-04-02 21:13:52 UTC]

does /usr/sbin/etc-update exist ?

did you `su` or `su -` ?

[Comment 4 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-04-11 07:46:40 UTC]

1 week on this one...

[Comment 5 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2007-01-11 11:01:28 UTC]

Closing due to old age