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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: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 11:00:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP43KogQz+hGMja1uG7EFNrbM66QdaKXnESjRYYhtmdzp2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e9add50-346a-0dd7-99d3-ea0fb5d2b1df@gentoo.org>

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 8:32 AM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On 8/14/19 5:41 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> >
> >     (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.
> >
>
> We already have bug 691478 for this issue? Only it should have been
> assigned to the failing package's project instead of the eclass
> maintainer: it's a build failure in a package that's doing something it
> shouldn't be doing.
>
> Revbump acct-user/man and it's fixed.
>

Bug 691478 is about the interaction of INSTALL_MASK with an eclass
pkg_preinst function.

Whether acct-user/man should set a HOME directory is related, but
separate issue.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-15 15:01 UTC|newest]

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
2019-08-15 12:32     ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-08-15 15:00       ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2019-08-15 15:33         ` Mike Gilbert

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