Bugzilla Bug 32636

Current version of squirrelmail breaks if you use FEATURES="userpriv":

# emerge squirrelmail
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) net-mail/squirrelmail-1.4.2-r1 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) squirrelmail-1.4.2.tar.bz2
 * Installing into //home/httpd/htdocs.
webapp-apache
apache2
install: cannot change permissions of `/var/tmp/portage/squirrelmail-1.4.2-r1/image//home/httpd/htdocs': Operation not permitted
touch: cannot touch `/var/tmp/portage/squirrelmail-1.4.2-r1/image///home/httpd/htdocs/.keep': Permission denied

!!! ERROR: net-mail/squirrelmail-1.4.2-r1 failed.
!!! Function keepdir, Line 252, Exitcode 1
!!! Failed to create .keep in /var/tmp/portage/squirrelmail-1.4.2-r1/image///home/httpd/htdocs

If you disable userpriv it works:

# FEATURES="-userpriv" emerge squirrelmail
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) net-mail/squirrelmail-1.4.2-r1 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) squirrelmail-1.4.2.tar.bz2
 * Installing into //home/httpd/htdocs.
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking squirrelmail-1.4.2.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/squirrelmail-1.4.2-r1/work

The error seems to be the fowners call in the webapps-apache eclass.
The ebuild and the eclass also uses the old chown syntax that isn't supported anymore in >=coreutils-5.0.91.

this is an error in webapp-apache

*** Bug 33460 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This kind of thing also happens when using "emerge -pv" or "emerge -s" on
packages which use webapp-apache.eclass (phpmyadmin, squirrel and many others).
The function webapp-determine-htdocsdir() is called every time the ebuild is
being parsed. It fails while running as normal user because it's trying to
keepdir, chmod and chown. Why oh why? Is there really a point to change the
permissions? And if there is, why not to do it in some other function.

*** Bug 26808 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 35316 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 35499 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 35820 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Is someone working on this ?

i will be working on it after my last assignment is completed (due midnight
pacific time tonight)

Okay, I couldn't think of a way to do this and keep backwards-compatibility ...

Apps that use this eclass will have to call the new webapps-mkdirs at the beginning of their src_install() functions.

I'm in the process of updating all affected eclasses.

Stu

Here's the list of packages that I've touched as part of this fix:

* app-misc/gallery
* app-text/man2html
* dev-db/phpmyadmin
* dev-db/phppgadmin
* dev-php/groupoffice
* dev-php/egroupware
* dev-php/phpgroupware
* net-analyzer/cacti
* net-mail/squirrelmail
* net-p2p/zuul
* net-www/ids
* net-www/horde
* net-www/htdig
* net-www/phpBB
* net-www/phpmp
* net-www/horde-chora
* net-www/horde-turba
* net-www/moinmoin
* net-www/phpwebsite
* net-www/horde-imp
* net-www/mythweb
* net-www/horde-kronolith


Here's a list of packages that I haven't touched - reason why in brackets.

* dev-php/jpgraph (doesn't install into HTTPD_ROOT)
* net-analyzer/aimsniff (doesn't use webapp-apache to make HTTPD_ROOT)
* net-nds/phpldapadmin (repoman complained that the ebuilds weren't added - most strange)

And here's the script I used to confirm that I've updated all the packages in Portage:

cd /usr/portage && grep -Rl 'webapp-apache' * | xargs grep -L 'webapp-mkdirs'

Hopefully, it's ready for testing.
Stu

testing shows that it's fixed (for squirrelmail, which is atm the only app on
the list I care about).

*** Bug 36069 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***