emerging a package created on a remote server and pulled across using 'emerge package_name -gk' and the PORTAGE_BINHOST variable to not seem to add the user and group specified in the ebuild to the system. So far this has happened in 2 packages that we've tried to install -- nagios-plugins and ntp. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. On one server, emerge an ebuild and use -B or -b with the emerge to build a binary tbz2 package. 2. Publish the packages/All directory out via Apache2. Our URI ended up being "http://server.domain.tld/packages/" 3. On another host, set PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://server.domain.tld/packages/" 4. On the same host, run 'emerge package_name -gk' to install the package from the remote server. Actual Results: In the example of the ntp package, running '/etc/init.d/ntpd start' fails with "chown: `ntp:ntp': invalid user" because the user and group do not yet exist. With nagios-plugins, I believe the installation/emerge fails because it tries to chown files to the user:group nagios and they have not been created. Expected Results: The pkg_setup function in the .ebuild file should be honored and the maintenance tasks carried out so that the users and groups are created properly. As a workaround, we simply manually create the users and groups on the system and then proceed. # emerge info from the build server: Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r2 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" 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/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache fixpackages sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/ rsync://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://ganymede.sento.com/gentoo-portage" USE="apache2 apm avi berkdb crypt cups curl encode foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gpm imap imlib java jpeg kerberos ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sasl sdl slang snmp spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib" # emerge info from the target (client) system: Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.4.22-gentoo-r5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.noved.org/ rsync://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25152 ***
This bug is not dup of #25152. pkg_setup() is called before build phrase but install phrase. So portage doesn't call pkg_setup in binary install. If you want to do it in binary install, you should use pkg_preinst(). Portage devs and vapier, what do you think?
*** Bug 47158 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
from the manpage: pkg_setup This function can be used if the package needs specific setup actions or checks to be preformed before anything else. if suddenly the way portage handles functions in an ebuild changes, packages are going to break the old behavior was to run pkg_setup regardless of whether it was binary or source and i believe that it should stay that way it's not called 'src_setup', it's called 'pkg_setup'
I didn't know it was changed. I'll ask other portage devs and fix it if it's bug.
I think we've had this discussion in the distant past... And it was decided that that particular part was for variables only. You cannot use pkg_setup for adding users (My $0.02 was at least not exclusively). It needs to be in postinst (too).
pkg_setup is called once. The ENVIRONMENT is reloaded, btw.
i dont remember any such discussion ... where did it occur ? if it was offlist (gentoo-dev), why wasnt the list notified of such a significant change ?
This is fixed.
