593988 – net-misc/openssh: install phase fails if /var/empty isn't writable

Bug 593988 - net-misc/openssh: install phase fails if /var/empty isn't writable

Summary: net-misc/openssh: install phase fails if /var/empty isn't writable

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2016-09-16 16:18 UTC by Blacklight Shining
Modified:	2017-03-20 19:04 UTC (History)
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Description Blacklight Shining 2016-09-16 16:18:03 UTC

It builds okay, but the install step fails if it can't write to /var/empty. The build log doesn't seem to say anything useful, just `!!! Cannot write to '/var/empty'.`.

The ebuild attempts to `keepdir /var/empty` in src_install() (maybe that's trying to write one of those empty .keep_* files in /var/empty?); according to bug #542386, this is no longer necessary. Bug #507248 also mentions openssh modifications to /var/empty which are no longer necessary.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2016-11-27 05:56:51 UTC

we probably can drop it now.  the init script will create the dir if it doesn't yet exist since it's in /var.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2017-03-20 19:04:20 UTC

openssh-7.5p1 no longer runs `keepdir /var/empty`