Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] acct-group.eclass: Don't modify groups when EPREFIX is non-empty

[James Le Cuirot]

On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 05:23 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 21:28 +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> > This was happening when running a prefix as root, which we don't really
> > support, but also when building a prefixed system under ROOT.
> >
> > Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/779181
> > Signed-off-by: James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>
> > ---
> >  eclass/acct-group.eclass | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/eclass/acct-group.eclass b/eclass/acct-group.eclass
> > index 590a2f20ed8e..f55c9f4c9587 100644
> > --- a/eclass/acct-group.eclass
> > +++ b/eclass/acct-group.eclass
> > @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ acct-group_src_install() {
> >  acct-group_pkg_preinst() {
> >  	debug-print-function ${FUNCNAME} "${@}"
> >
> > -	if [[ ${EUID} -ne 0 ]]; then
> > +	if [[ ${EUID} -ne 0 || -n ${EPREFIX} ]]; then
> >  		einfo "Insufficient privileges to execute ${FUNCNAME[0]}"
> >  		return
> >  	fi
>
> I dare say the message is not necessarily correct here but I suppose it
> doesn't matter that much.

Yeah, I thought that too, but not enough for such a corner case.