I just noticed that my courier install was not working (backup server), so I checked the logs and they contain: <snip> Sep 7 01:04:33 [courierd] queuelo=200, queuehi=700 Sep 7 01:04:33 [courierd] Purging /var/lib/courier/msgq Sep 7 01:04:33 [courierd] Purging /var/lib/courier/msgs Sep 7 01:04:33 [courierd] No such file or directory Sep 7 01:04:33 [courierd] ABNORMAL TERMINATION, exit status: 1 Sep 7 01:04:33 [courierd] Will restart in 60 seconds. ! Sure enough, those directories don't exist. So I stopped courier and re-emerged. After the emerge completes, /var/lib/courier/msg{q,s} still don't exist. Next I check the files installed by the package: # equery f mail-mta/courier | grep /var/lib/courier/msg /var/lib/courier/msgq /var/lib/courier/msgs So why weren't they created? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.4.28-gent oo-r9 i586) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.28-gentoo-r9 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19-r1, 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k6-2 -mcpu=k6-2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k6-2 -mcpu=k6-2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://192.168.0.62/distfiles/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.uni-c.dk/gentoo/ http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups curl dga directfb divx4linux eds emboss encode esd fam fbcon flac foomaticdb gd gdbm ggi gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib java javascript jpeg libg++ libwww live lzo mad maildir matroska matrox mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg msn mysql nas ncurses network nls ogg oggvorbis opengl operanom2 oscar oss pam pdflib p erl pic png python qt quicktime readline rtc samba sdl slang speex spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb v4l v4l2 vorbis wmf wxgtk1 wxwindows xanim xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib video_cards_matrox userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
I confirm there is a bug with those directories. On the first installation, the two directories are created correctly. But when re-merge they get removed during the cleaning step with many other empty directories which I think should be kept. >>> Safely unmerging already-installed instance... ... <<< dir /var/run/courier <<< dir /var/lib/courier/webmail-logincache <<< dir /var/lib/courier/tmp/broken <<< dir /var/lib/courier/tmp <<< dir /var/lib/courier/msgs <<< dir /var/lib/courier/msgq <<< dir /var/lib/courier/filters <<< dir /var/lib/courier/faxtmp <<< dir /var/lib/courier/calendar/public <<< dir /var/lib/courier/calendar/private <<< dir /var/lib/courier/calendar/localcache <<< dir /var/lib/courier/calendar <<< dir /var/lib/courier/allfilters ... >>> original instance of package unmerged safely. not so safely it seems. I don't know what is the correct fix? Maybe the ebuild should put a .keep in them?
can anyone check this with 0.52.2?
0.52.2 don't have this bug
Confirmed, fixed in 0.52.2, thanks.
