in games_pkg_setup() $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/games.eclass,v 1.32 2003/07/01 19:13:18 vapier Exp $ the line use dedicated && enewuser ... returns false if USE="-dedicated" which means that the functions returns false which makes everything fail... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="-dedicated" emerge xbomb Actual Results: <snip> * Adding user 'games' to your system ... * games already exists on your system :) !!! ERROR: app-games/xbomb-2.1-r1 failed. !!! Function dyn_setup, Line 436, Exitcode 1 !!! pkg_setup function failed; exiting. Expected Results: the problem can be fixed by adding return 0; at the end of games_pkg_setup() like this: games_pkg_setup() { enewgroup ${GAMES_GROUP} 35 enewuser ${GAMES_USER} 35 /bin/false /usr/games ${GAMES_GROUP} use dedicated && enewuser ${GAMES_USER_DED} 36 /bin/false /usr/games ${GAMES_GROUP} return 0; } amiel@hobbes amiel $ emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Duron(tm) processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts bonobo svga tcltk java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr gtk2 aalib nc urses 3dfx vim-with-x -alsa mozcalendar mozinterfaceinfo mozp3p pgd flash mysql imap ldap odbc oracle oci8 gd tiff xml" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j4" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="ccache sandbox"
i already added this to the eclass after a friend pointed it out via im my bad :)
thanks, and maybe this should be mentioned in developer docs?
