From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: handle missing path in preinst
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:41:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP42fh=OZg7OyBk0QnjUT6NXZebYVXA7XBbzxroad6hCjPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15ee5b1e-a171-c530-3973-ac5ca5a98a04@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 5:29 PM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 8/14/19 5:14 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/691478
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
> > ---
> > eclass/acct-user.eclass | 5 +++++
>
> This is a symptom of another problem. The man user claims /usr/share/man
> as its home directory, and insists on changing its permissions to
> root:root 0755. Why? If the default homedir and owner will work, they
> should be used. We're going to have a mountain of shit on our hands if
> acct-user packages start claiming random directories as their homes and
> reset the permissions/ownership on them randomly.
>
> (If the "man" user really reads things from e.g. $HOME/man5/ebuild.5,
> I'll eat my foot.)
>
Agreed. Please file a bug about this.
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-14 21:14 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: handle missing path in preinst Mike Gilbert
2019-08-14 21:26 ` Michał Górny
2019-08-14 21:38 ` Mike Gilbert
2019-08-14 21:29 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-08-14 21:41 ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2019-08-15 12:32 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-08-15 15:00 ` Mike Gilbert
2019-08-15 15:33 ` Mike Gilbert
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