From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: base-system@gentoo.org, kangie@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH 1/1] profiles/default/linux: add net-mail/mailbase to @system
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 13:37:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP40x8a52m9wLNqKuACRXQVKaHrh0uOyG=QBNdqhZdiFv6w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250524000724.1680922-2-kangie@gentoo.org>
On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM <kangie@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> From: Matt Jolly <kangie@gentoo.org>
>
> The Gentoo Handbook has, for a long time, provided instructions to create
> new users with the -m flag. However, this now results in the error
> "Creating mailbox file: No such file or directory" because
> `/var/spool/mail` is no longer included in stage3 tarballs.
An alternative would be to change the default shadow config to disable
CREATE_MAIL_SPOOL, or switch to using MAIL_FILE (relative to home
directory) instead.
The @system change seems less disruptive.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-24 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-24 0:04 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] add net-mail/mailbase to @system kangie
2025-05-24 0:04 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] profiles/default/linux: " kangie
2025-05-24 17:37 ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
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