508930 – sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.49 — “QA Notice: This ebuild installs into paths that should be created at runtime”

Bug 508930 - sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.49 — “QA Notice: This ebuild installs into paths that should be created at runtime”

Summary: sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.49 — “QA Notice: This ebuild installs into paths tha...

Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	genkernel (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers

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Blocks:	runtime-paths
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Reported:	2014-04-28 01:35 UTC by 8573dd
Modified:	2015-08-20 03:12 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description 8573dd 2014-04-28 01:35:13 UTC

While installing `sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.49`, `emerge` prints the following message:

>  * QA Notice: This ebuild installs into paths that should be created at runtime.
>  *  To fix, simply do not install into these directories.  Instead, your package
>  *  should create dirs on the fly at runtime as needed via init scripts/etc...
>  *
>  *   var/cache
>  *   var/cache/genkernel
>  *   var/cache/genkernel/src
>  *   var/cache/genkernel/src/mdadm-3.1.5.tar.bz2
>  *   var/cache/genkernel/src/fuse-2.8.6.tar.gz
>  *   var/cache/genkernel/src/dmraid-1.0.0.rc16-3.tar.bz2
>  *   var/cache/genkernel/src/gnupg-1.4.11.tar.bz2
>  *   var/cache/genkernel/src/LVM2.2.02.88.tgz
>  *   var/cache/genkernel/src/open-iscsi-2.0-872.tar.gz
>  *   var/cache/genkernel/src/unionfs-fuse-0.24.tar.bz2
>  *   var/cache/genkernel/src/busybox-1.20.2.tar.bz2

Comment 1 Xake 2014-04-29 10:41:20 UTC

Genkernel really should install those files into /var/lib/genkernel instead. They never where "cached" to begin with, as they are required to generate a initramfs.