I get messages from my logrotate cron job: error: tor:9 unknown user '_tor' error: found error in /var/log/tor/*.log , skipping The cause are these lines in my /etc/logrotate.d/tor from net-misc/tor-0.2.1.19: # you may need to change the username/groupname below create 0640 _tor _tor create 0640 tor tor sharedscripts It seems that the _tor lines come from upstream. According to the ChangeLog, they were a minor bugfix first included in 0.2.1.3-alpha and aiming at https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=676 which seems to be in response to our own bug #216298. The tor lines on the other hand are added to the file in the src_install phase using some really massively ugly sed script, probably in response to bug #216298 as well. So the issue was fixed twice, once upstream with upstream names, and then at the distro level with our names. I suggest dropping that sed script and replacing it with some proper patch, preferrably in src_preprare. Such a patch could be combined with the change from tor-0.2.0.30-logrotate.patch from bug #233612. A patch has the benefit over a sed script that epatch complain if it doesn't apply cleanly. It is also much more readable. I'll attach a suitable patch.
Created attachment 201210 [details, diff] tor-0.2.1.19-logrotate.patch This patch replaces both tor-0.2.0.30-logrotate.patch and the sed script in src_install. By the way: the old logrotate patch originally came from bug #178975 and was only updated in bug #233612. My patch contains a header with references to the relevant reports.
Created attachment 201212 [details, diff] ebuild changes And this is a patch of the required changes to the ebuild, in order to change the used patch file and drop the sed script.
Thanks for your support, that makes bug handling really easy. Fixed.
