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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing cups
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:39:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130917003938.0735c735@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874n9kqu4q.fsf@nyu.edu>

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On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:28:05 -0400, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:

> So I reinstalled cups but /etc/cups/cupd.conf was not changed and still
> has its old date and contents.  The merge looks clean (output below)

/etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed. Also, portage knows if you are reinstalling
the same version of the same package and does not try to update the
configs again. To change this, run the emerge with --noconfmem and then
run *-update.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

IBM: Itty Bitty Mentality

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-16 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-16 22:28 [gentoo-user] trouble installing cups gottlieb
2013-09-16 23:39 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2013-09-17  1:23   ` gottlieb
2013-09-17  9:22     ` Neil Bothwick
2013-09-17 15:17       ` gottlieb

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