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On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 1:04 PM Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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> I would like to create an acct-user package for the 'portage' user, |
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> but I'm having trouble deciding on a home directory. |
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> baselayout currently sets it to /var/tmp/portage, and this just seems |
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> like a bad idea to me. I'm pretty sure we have a QA policy against |
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> installing files there anyway. |
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> If we set the home directory to /dev/null, this may cause problems for |
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> unit tests that expect the account to have a valid home directory. For |
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> example, see this bug report for app-shells/ksh, which is about a test |
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> case that fails when the HOME environment variable is unset. It also |
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> fails if the home directory is not a directory (/dev/null). |
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> https://github.com/att/ast/issues/1391 |
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> /x/portage/app-shells/ksh-2020.0.0_beta1/work/ksh-2020.0.0_beta1-build/src/cmd/ksh93/ksh[5]: |
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> cd: /dev/null: [Not a directory] |
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> <E> builtins[494]: cd with no arguments fails if HOME is unset |
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> <W> builtins[-1]: error_count = 1 |
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> So, I guess we should pick somewhere to create an empty directory for |
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> portage. Any suggestions? |
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/var/lib/portage/home was suggested in IRC. If there are any |
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objections to that path, please make them known. |
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