On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:04:38 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
>
>> For the folks who lost /etc/conf.d/net, was it the stub file that came
>> with OpenRC, or had you modify it?
>
> I've tried the update on two systems, both with modified config files
> (the second one modified just before the upgrade to see if that made a
> difference). The first one lost it's file, the second one kept it.
>
> I've got a couple more t update so I'll see if I can see a pattern.

Looks like they've solved the mystery:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481336

Sounds like if you modified the file BEFORE installing the previous
version of openrc, it got removed, but if you modified it AFTER
installing your previous openrc it would be kept.