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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: handle missing path in preinst
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:01:11
Message-Id: CAJ0EP43KogQz+hGMja1uG7EFNrbM66QdaKXnESjRYYhtmdzp2w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: handle missing path in preinst by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 8:32 AM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On 8/14/19 5:41 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
4 > >
5 > > (If the "man" user really reads things from e.g. $HOME/man5/ebuild.5,
6 > > I'll eat my foot.)
7 > >
8 > >
9 > > Agreed. Please file a bug about this.
10 > >
11 >
12 > We already have bug 691478 for this issue? Only it should have been
13 > assigned to the failing package's project instead of the eclass
14 > maintainer: it's a build failure in a package that's doing something it
15 > shouldn't be doing.
16 >
17 > Revbump acct-user/man and it's fixed.
18 >
19
20 Bug 691478 is about the interaction of INSTALL_MASK with an eclass
21 pkg_preinst function.
22
23 Whether acct-user/man should set a HOME directory is related, but
24 separate issue.

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