Bug 404369 – Mozilla products: 4GB Disk space test should be mandatory

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Tobias Kaminsky 2012-02-18 11:14:35 UTC]

Hello,

while installing a mozilla ebuild (firefox or thunderbird) the ebuild checks if there is at least 4GB space in /var/tmp/portage/ and complains with yellow *** if it is not.
But with emerge --jobs 5 one does not see this.
Therefore emerge builds firefox/thunderbird until there is no space left, fails.
One has to resize their /var/tmp/ and start again.

So, if this test fails it should exit the emerge process.

(/var/tmp/portage is a tmpfs with 2GB, therefore it will always fail...)

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt 2012-02-20 05:57:49 UTC]

It all comes down to useflags, an ebuild should never fail when making a simple check for space, there are too many variables that come into play.

[Comment 2 Tobias Kaminsky 2012-02-20 08:22:46 UTC]

Hello,

thanks for your answer.

Unfortunely Libreoffice acts different: It fails if there are not at least 10GB disk space.

The different I noticed is:
LO:
pkg_pretend() {
...
CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="6G"
check-reqs_pkg_pretend
...
}

Thunderbird:
pkg_setup() {
...
check-reqs_pkg_setup
...
}

So this is inconsistent. Both ebuild should act in the same way, or?
Personally I think an ebuild should fail.

Thank you!