[gentoo-user] prevent package from creating dir?

[gentoo-user] prevent package from creating dir?

[Douglas J Hunley]

I've noticed that newer releases of systemd unconditionally create
/var/log/journal if it doesn't exist. I'm getting tired of nuking this
directory after every upgrade of systemd. I know how to configure
Portage to not overwrite config files, but is there an option to _not_
create a directory if it exists? Yes, I could edit the "Storage" line
journald.conf but thinking bigger picture (for when some other package
starts doing this) I'm curious if Portage can be told not to do this.
Thanks.

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Re: [gentoo-user] prevent package from creating dir?

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 10/20/2014 08:40 AM, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> I've noticed that newer releases of systemd unconditionally create
> /var/log/journal if it doesn't exist. I'm getting tired of nuking this
> directory after every upgrade of systemd. I know how to configure
> Portage to not overwrite config files, but is there an option to _not_
> create a directory if it exists? Yes, I could edit the "Storage" line
> journald.conf but thinking bigger picture (for when some other package
> starts doing this) I'm curious if Portage can be told not to do this.
> Thanks.
> 

man make.conf:

  INSTALL_MASK = [space delimited list of file names]
    Use this variable if you want  to  selectively  prevent  certain
    files  from  being copied into your file system tree.  This does
    not work on symlinks, but only on actual files.  Useful  if  you
    wish  to  filter  out  files  like  HACKING.gz  and TODO.gz. The
    INSTALL_MASK is processed just before a package is merged.  Also
    supported  is  a  PKG_INSTALL_MASK variable that behaves exactly
    like INSTALL_MASK except that it is processed just  before  cre‐
    ation of a binary package.

Honestly I don't know if it works on empty directories, but give it a shot.

Re: [gentoo-user] prevent package from creating dir?

[Douglas J Hunley]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Honestly I don't know if it works on empty directories, but give it a shot.


I wasn't sure if that covered directories either, so I figured someone
else has probably already tried it. I'll give it a little bit to see
if anyone else replies and then I'll go test it :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] prevent package from creating dir?

[Mike Gilbert]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Douglas J Hunley <doug.hunley@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that newer releases of systemd unconditionally create
> /var/log/journal if it doesn't exist. I'm getting tired of nuking this
> directory after every upgrade of systemd.

This specific example is a bug; we should not be installing an empty
directory. It either needs to be pruned or converted to a keepdir.

I opted for the former.

+  20 Oct 2014; Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> systemd-216-r1.ebuild,
+  systemd-9999.ebuild:
+  Remove empty /var/log/journal directory.