Re: [gentoo-alt] Aborting due to QA concerns: there are files installed outside the prefix

[Benda Xu]

Hi Gábor,



VIDA Gábor <vidagabor@×××××.com> writes:



> I'm trying to use RAP to replace the whole user-land of my main distro
> (what I cannot replace unfortunately). It works fine, except that I
> periodically find packages that install files outside the prefix at
> the end of the build. Even portage has this bug when the "doc" USE
> flag is set, what I've already reported.


Thanks for reporting.  I have looked into the portage build system.  Not

a trivial task to find out where to fix. Patches welcome.



> How do you come over such problems, or what would be the way to follow? Change the
> ebuilds to move the files that are outside of the prefix at the end of the build?
> Better would be to report the bugs to the upstream project, but that might take ages
> to be fixed. Or to the ebuild maintainer as a Gentoo bug?


File a bug at bugs.g.o under Gentoo/Alt, and preferrably attach a

patch.  The Prefix Team will pick it up.



> Right now:
>
>   >>> Completed installing autoconf-2.13 into /home/vidagabor/usr/roots/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.13/image/
>
>    * Final size of build directory: 1996 KiB
>    * Final size of installed tree: 1120 KiB
>
>    * QA Notice: the following files are outside of the prefix:
>    * /usr
>    * /usr/bin
>    * /usr/bin/autoreconf-2.13
>    * /usr/bin/ifnames-2.13
>    * /usr/bin/autoscan-2.13
>    * /usr/bin/autoheader-2.13
>    * /usr/bin/autoconf-2.13
>    * /usr/bin/autoupdate-2.13
>    * ERROR: sys-devel/autoconf-2.13::gentoo failed:
>    *   Aborting due to QA concerns: there are files installed outside the prefix


Fixed in tree.  Thanks!



https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ffcd38e7d281a84821df6



Cheers,

Benda