Hinnerk van Bruinehsen writes: > On 21.04.2012 17:30, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:22:20 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: [...] > >>> What happened is it broke again, with no obvious signs of the > >>> cause. conf-update reported only trivial changes to three > >>> files. [...] > > There is a bug filed > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412721 > > > > The comments there say that if you run etc-update right after the > > emerge all is well (but this isn't sufficient for people who use > > screen, detatch, and log out). Someone also mentioned > > dispatch-conf working. No one mentioned cfg-update, which I use > > (and I believe neil does as well). Could the problem be dependent > > on which configuration file updater one uses?
No, he is using conf-update, which is a different utility. Wonko