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
