Emerge mgetty : * net-dialup/mgetty Latest version available: 1.1.30 Emerge stops when it try to chown some files to user fax. It works when adding user fax before emerge. thanks. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge mgetty. 2. 3. Actual Results: install -c -o bin -g bin -m 755 faxrunqd /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/sbin install -c -o bin -g bin faxq-helper /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/lib/mgetty+sendfax chown fax /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/lib/mgetty+sendfax/faxq-helper chown: `fax': invalid user make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/work/mgetty-1.1.30/fax' make: *** [install.bin] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-dialup/mgetty-1.1.30 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 81, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) It works when adding the user fax before emerge.
---------- also missing : creation of /var/log/mgetty ( emerge doesn't create this directory ) groupadd modem ( by default mgetty send warnings if it wan't find this group ) thank you.
*** Bug 64358 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
the user fax bug was already fixed in -r2, fixed the other two bugs as well
-r2 should be marked stable soon, as the broken one is still the latest stable one :-((
