Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: handle missing path in preinst

[Mike Gilbert]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:00 AM Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 8:32 AM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/14/19 5:41 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > >
> > >     (If the "man" user really reads things from e.g. $HOME/man5/ebuild.5,
> > >     I'll eat my foot.)
> > >
> > >
> > > Agreed. Please file a bug about this.
> > >
> >
> > We already have bug 691478 for this issue? Only it should have been
> > assigned to the failing package's project instead of the eclass
> > maintainer: it's a build failure in a package that's doing something it
> > shouldn't be doing.
> >
> > Revbump acct-user/man and it's fixed.
> >
>
> Bug 691478 is about the interaction of INSTALL_MASK with an eclass
> pkg_preinst function.
>
> Whether acct-user/man should set a HOME directory is related, but
> separate issue.

Bug filed.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/692222