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kermitjunior
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 Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 12:35 pm Post subject: Important: 2 config files in /etc need updating. |
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I keep getting:
IMPORTANT: 2 config files in the /etc need updating
see blah for help
I go and check out what it tells me to (don't remember exactly what since I'm in windies right now) but it doesn't help at all. Is there a magic command that updates the config files?
I've basically just been emerging KDE. keep getting stuck on kdebase error, but I think I figured the fix for that. Just need to know how to update these suckers.
Thanks!
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zwik
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| Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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The easiest way is emerging gentoolkit.
after that you run etc-uptdate
Then you will get a nice screen on wich files "needs" updating.
Good luck.
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rac
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| Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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No need to emerge gentoolkit any more just to get etc-update: it's part of portage now.
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Normie
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True, but gentoolkit is still nut-nutty goodness for a lot of folk (myself included). Got a little time, just get the whole thing, if you ask me. Which you didn't. 
-Normie -- "I'd jump into the acid right the hell now to save time, but then I wouldn't be able to hear your own acidy screams of death."
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Milez
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| Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 3:53 am Post subject: Doing it by hand... |
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If you want to update those config files by hand, cd into /etc/, then type
| Code: | | find . | grep ._cfg |
The reason for this is because if portage is about to overwrite a file in /etc/, it instead puts its new copy in, but prepended by ._cfg##### (where ##### is some number). So, for instance, instead of overwriting /etc/make.conf, portage will create a file called ._cfg04062make.conf (or something close to that).
Anyway, run that find command in /etc/. You'll see the files that you need to check (though of course you have to do an ls -a to see them in the dir listing because the . in front hides them), open each in your favorite editor, then manually overwrite them over the old files yourself if you like the changes portage is proposing to make. And, if you don't understand the file (or it's one in which you've been using the defaults anyway), it's probably a good idea then to use the new one that portage gave you.
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