Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: die explicitly if HOME is missing in preinst

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 3:01 PM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On 8/15/19 11:43 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> >
> > +             # Path might be missing due to INSTALL_MASK, etc.
> > +             # https://bugs.gentoo.org/691478
> > +             if [[ ! -e "${ED}/${ACCT_USER_HOME#/}" ]]; then
> > +                     eerror "Home directory is missing from the installation image:"
> > +                     eerror "  ${ACCT_USER_HOME}"
> > +                     eerror "Check INSTALL_MASK for entries that would cause this."
> > +                     die "${ACCT_USER_HOME} does not exist"
> > +             fi
>
> This suggests that the problem is with the user's INSTALL_MASK, and not
> with the package that crashed. I would rather they file a bug than
> change their mask entry. But, I guess it's pretty easy these days to
> grep the whole acct-user category for issues like this that I missed on
> the mailing list.
>

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