Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: ignore missing directory in preinst

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Mike Gilbert wrote:

> +		# Path might be missing due to INSTALL_MASK, etc.
> +		# https://bugs.gentoo.org/691478
> +		if [[ -e "${ED}/${ACCT_USER_HOME#/}" ]]; then
> +			fowners "${ACCT_USER_HOME_OWNER}" "${ACCT_USER_HOME}"
> +			fperms "${ACCT_USER_HOME_PERMS}" "${ACCT_USER_HOME}"
> +		fi

IIUC, this would result in an entry for the directory in /etc/passwd,
but the directory wouldn't exist on the system?

I don't think that's a sane situation, so maybe the eclass should just
die here? (Basically, there are two possibilities: Either, things will
break if the dir is missing, then dying might be the best option.
Or, everything works without the dir, then the ebuild should set it to
/dev/null, in the first place.)

Ulrich