If I try to sync the Openvas plugins using openvas-nvt-sync command, it creates an empty directory structure under the directory where it was executed from and leaves it there. Here's a transcript: [root@sanctuary /tmp/testdir]# tree -a . 0 directories, 0 files [root@sanctuary /tmp/testdir]# openvas-nvt-sync > /dev/null [root@sanctuary /tmp/testdir]# tree -a . `-- " `-- usr `-- lib `-- openvas `-- plugins" 5 directories, 0 files [root@sanctuary /tmp/testdir]# Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run openvas-nvt-sync in any directory 2. Observe the directory being created 3. [root@sanctuary /tmp/testdir]# emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz Timestamp of tree: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:07:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en en_GB fi de ru ja zh_CN zn_TW" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 arts asf bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo caps cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt ctype cups curl dba dbus dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomatic foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog jack java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos ladspa lcms ldap libcaca libnotify lirc lzo mad matroska mbox memlimit midi mikmod mng modplug mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap musepack ncurses nls nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openal openexr opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl php png portaudio posix postgres ppds pppd prelude python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline real reflection samba scanner sdl session slang sndfile soap sockets sox speex spell spl ssl startup-notification svg tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb vcd verbose vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xanim xine xml xorg xpm xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev joystick keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB fi de ru ja zh_CN zn_TW" LIRC_DEVICES="hauppauge" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev fglrx radeon vesa vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Thanks for the report, fixed and patch send upstream.
