-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This may sound harsh, but don't use automerge. Portage/etc-update cannot possibly know about every config change you (or the ebuilds) can make. I assume etc-update (rightly) doesn't even attempt this and merges based on string analysis without thought as to what the settings actually mean, leading to breakage.
If you never touched a file it's probably save to just overwrite the existing one. You always have the backup in case it wasn't save ;) That's how I do it anyways. On a different if related topic, I'd recommend running emerge -DuapvN world instead of emerge --update world (aka emerge -u world) That stands for: - --deep (update dependencies as well and not just packages you explicitly installed) - --update - --ask - --verbose (shows USE flags and download size) - --newuse (recompiles packages whose USE flags changed, shown by a * next to the flag in the output of av) Steffen Mark wrote: > I'm having a problem after I did emerge --update world last night. > After it finished, it said 75 files in /etc needed updating. OK, I've > seen this before and have made mistakes with it. So this time, I > copied all of /etc to /home/mark/etc.old, and then ran etc-update. I > then let it auto merge everything and rebooted. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC47gwDPBy+6JbS7oRAgmaAJ96/GbAPEH0iEdTFvrUqe21l8WhqACeNZDY GSYJzMXyioRenEAv183kxPU= =9M7K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
