quoth the gentuxx: > Hi all, > > This is sort of a n00bie question, but something I haven't really had > to mess around with. I recently did an `emerge world` and after the > update and a reboot, my root prompt has changed back to the gentoo > default. It now seems that the /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile are > overriding my root's .bashrc and .profile. In addition to the root > prompt being changed, it seems that the PATH environment variable > isn't complete. _Some_ utilities that are part of the gentoolkit (but > not all) aren't found in the path (qpkg, equery, etc.). So what do I > need to do to set things right, so my local setting override the > global? Or is there a reason for this, and I should just modify the > global, since it has if/else's for root? > > TIA
I have found the best way to deal with this is to add this snippet to the end
of /etc/profile:
if [ -e ~/.bashrc]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
The problem is that you need to add it again when you upgrade baselayout...
> gentux
> echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge'
>
> gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A
> 6996 0993
-d
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