On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:22:20 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I'll run the update again today, paying more attention, and see what > > happens. > > What happened is it broke again, with no obvious signs of the cause. > conf-update reported only trivial changes to three files.
I've just tried it on my netbook and the same happened, but I think I'm closer to the cause. The three files in /etc/pam.d are login, passwd and su. After updating, there were ._cfg* versions of these files, but no originals, so conf-update just deleted them. It turns out these were owned by shadow but now belong to pambase. I suspect that pambase installed them as ._cfg versions, because the others already existed, then shadow removed the originals as they were no longer part of the package. Whether this is a bug in portage, the ebuilds or conf-update is open to debate, but conf-update ought to handle the situation better. I'll file a bug later if no one beats me to it. -- Neil Bothwick Only an idiot actually READS taglines.
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