Bug 104652 – emerge of mediawiki 1.4.9 generates post-install and webapp-config errors

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description Jason Kridner 2005-09-02 16:26:40 UTC]

Sorry I'm a bit of a newbie.  I don't know where webapp-config came from to know
if it is right.  I don't seem to see a valid version of it.  I might have used
the ppc keyword to install it on accident.  Either way, mediawiki certainly
won't build by simply testing the current ebuild.  I'll see if I can't figure
out where the beginning is and work on it one ebuild at a time.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install gentoo for OSX and not be perfectly comfortable you did it right.
2. Add ~ppc-macos to the keywords for the mediawiki-1.4.9.ebuild.
3. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~ppc-macos" emerge mediawiki
Actual Results:  
This is the output of my emerge of mediawiki 1.4.9:

Calculating dependencies  >>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking mediawiki-1.4.9.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/mediawiki-1.4.9/work
>>> Source unpacked.
 ^[[32;01m*^[[0m No math support enabled. Skipping.
>>> Test phase [not enabled]: www-apps/mediawiki-1.4.9

>>> Install mediawiki-1.4.9 into /var/tmp/portage/mediawiki-1.4.9/image/
category www-apps
 ^[[32;01m*^[[0m (rtfm)
/usr/portage/www-apps/mediawiki/files/postinstall-1.4-en.txt (lang: en)
chown: root: Invalid argument
chown: root: Invalid argument
man:
prepallstrip:
strip: strip --strip-unneeded
>>> Completed installing mediawiki-1.4.9 into
/var/tmp/portage/mediawiki-1.4.9/image/

 ^H^H ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) www-apps/mediawiki-1.4.9 to /
>>> md5 files   ;-) mediawiki-1.3.13.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) mediawiki-1.3.14.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) mediawiki-1.3.15.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) mediawiki-1.4.7.ebuild

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 ^[[32;01m*^[[0m vhosts USE flag not set - auto-installing using webapp-config
 ^[[32;01m*^[[0m This is an installation
 ^[[32;01m*^[[0m mediawiki-1.4.9 is not installed - using install mode
 ^[[32;01m*^[[0m Running /usr/sbin/webapp-config -I -h localhost -u root -d
/mediawiki mediawiki 1.4.9
/usr/sbin/webapp-config: line 1: getent: command not found

Fatal error: 'root' is not a valid username
Fatal error(s) - aborting
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
ediawiki/1.4.9/htdocs-secure/skins/common/images
--- !empty dir /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/1.4.9/htdocs-secure/skins/common
--- !empty dir /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/1.4.9/htdocs-secure/skins/chick
--- !empty dir /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/1.4.9/htdocs-secure/skins/amethyst
--- !empty dir /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/1.4.9/htdocs-secure/skins
--- !empty dir
/usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/1.4.9/htdocs-secure/maintenance/postgresql

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Expected Results:  
Built mediawiki and installed it in a happy place for the apache that is built
into Mac OS X 10.4 (darwin).

!!! Relying on the shell to locate gcc, this may break
!!! DISTCC, installing gcc-config and setting your current gcc
!!! profile will fix this
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-darwin/macos/10.4, gcc-4.0.0, libsystem-7.1-r0,
8.2.0 Power Macintosh)
=================================================================
System uname: 8.2.0 Power Macintosh powerpc
macos-20041118
distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
dev-lang/python:     [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  [Not Present]
sys-devel/automake:  [Not Present]
sys-devel/binutils:  [Not Present]
sys-devel/libtool:   [Not Present]
virtual/os-headers:  7.1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="powerpc-apple-darwin"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="ppc emboss ppc-macos userland_Darwin kernel_Darwin elibc_Darwin"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Philippe Trottier (RETIRED) 2006-09-01 08:58:00 UTC]

I was wondering if evolution in webapp-config and new releases of mediawiki might help this case. Could we revisit this ? I would think the problem is really something related to webapp-config due to the "root" user being invalid.

[Comment 2 Fabian Groffen 2006-09-09 09:04:05 UTC]

the "root" user is valid, but the "root" group is not.  A common workaround is to use 0 instead of "root".  This because on BSD root's group is "wheel", and on Solaris it is "sys", but they all have gid 0.

[Comment 3 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2006-12-05 07:08:05 UTC]

There are two settings in the webapp-config config file:

#vhost_config_uid="root"
#vhost_config_gid="root"

If these would be changed so that they contain "0" does this fix the problem? If this is the case I would change the default value within webapp-config.

[Comment 4 Philippe Trottier (RETIRED) 2006-12-08 05:53:32 UTC]

Yes it would fix the problem if the group would be "0"
You might consider changing the user too, but there is not main reasons for that, yet.

[Comment 5 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2006-12-31 02:49:05 UTC]

Fixed in webapp-config-1.50.16. This version is available from my overlay (http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/wrobel) and will be moved to portage next week.

Thanks for the report!