From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7741381F3 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 01:24:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 728BFE0BAE; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 01:23:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 647A0E0AE1 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 01:23:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newlap.localdomain (ool-182de1a5.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.225.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8H1NoD4010553 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:23:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: by newlap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 67749A006F; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:23:50 -0400 (EDT) From: gottlieb@nyu.edu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing cups References: <874n9kqu4q.fsf@nyu.edu> <20130917003938.0735c735@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:23:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130917003938.0735c735@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (Neil Bothwick's message of "Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:39:38 +0100") Message-ID: <87fvt4p7fd.fsf@nyu.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: 49b6ea6e-7e65-4dbe-81bb-0368b8c75014 X-Archives-Hash: 89adef8e360d69a40fd61220203f143d On Mon, Sep 16 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. This part I knew, but would have expected to hear that config files have new versions > Also, portage knows if you are reinstalling the same version of the > same package and does not try to update the configs again. That is what I missed. > To change this, run the emerge with --noconfmem and then run *-update. Works perfectly. thanks, allan