565592 – app-admin/syslogread: removal (was: creates /nonexistant in root /)

Bug 565592 - app-admin/syslogread: removal (was: creates /nonexistant in root /)

Summary: app-admin/syslogread: removal (was: creates /nonexistant in root /)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it

URL:
Whiteboard:	Pending removal: 2018-12-04
Keywords:	PMASKED

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2015-11-12 15:14 UTC by Toralf Förster
Modified:	2018-12-04 13:43 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2015-11-12 15:14:17 UTC

pretty sure, this is unwanted, or ? :

drwxr-xr-x 2 syslog root 4096 Nov 12 02:25 /nonexistent

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2017-06-06 11:00:02 UTC

It looks intentional:
pkg_setup() {
        enewgroup syslog
        enewuser syslog -1 -1 /nonexistent syslog
}

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2018-07-10 14:53:42 UTC

anyway, we are the last distribution still shipping this software from 2005

Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2018-12-04 13:43:47 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=fb837f7691cd844c3ad7a6329fedcb7fabd7df38

commit fb837f7691cd844c3ad7a6329fedcb7fabd7df38
Author:     Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2018-12-04 13:37:25 +0000
Commit:     Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2018-12-04 13:37:25 +0000

    app-admin/syslogread: Remove last-rited pkg
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/565592
    Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>

 app-admin/syslogread/Manifest                      |  1 -
 app-admin/syslogread/files/0.92/klogd.run          |  4 -
 app-admin/syslogread/files/0.92/syslogread-log.run |  3 -
 app-admin/syslogread/files/0.92/syslogread.run     |  2 -
 .../files/syslogread-0.92-fix-parallel-build.patch | 19 -----
 app-admin/syslogread/metadata.xml                  |  9 ---
 app-admin/syslogread/syslogread-0.92-r1.ebuild     | 90 ----------------------
 profiles/package.mask                              |  5 --
 8 files changed, 133 deletions(-)