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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: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:41:18
Message-Id: CAJ0EP42fh=OZg7OyBk0QnjUT6NXZebYVXA7XBbzxroad6hCjPg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: handle missing path in preinst by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 5:29 PM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > On 8/14/19 5:14 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
4 > > Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/691478
5 > > Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
6 > > ---
7 > > eclass/acct-user.eclass | 5 +++++
8 >
9 > This is a symptom of another problem. The man user claims /usr/share/man
10 > as its home directory, and insists on changing its permissions to
11 > root:root 0755. Why? If the default homedir and owner will work, they
12 > should be used. We're going to have a mountain of shit on our hands if
13 > acct-user packages start claiming random directories as their homes and
14 > reset the permissions/ownership on them randomly.
15 >
16 > (If the "man" user really reads things from e.g. $HOME/man5/ebuild.5,
17 > I'll eat my foot.)
18 >
19
20 Agreed. Please file a bug about this.
21
22 >

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