Created attachment 609378 [details] Error log The acct-group eclass is supposed to accept "-1" as a value for ACCT_GROUP_ID that will cause the group ID to be dynamically allocated, according to the documentation (https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/acct-group.eclass/index.html). But it doesn't work - acct-group_pkg_pretend completes successfully because it has a "[[ ${ACCT_GROUP_ID} -eq -1 ]] && return" line, but acct-group_pkg_preinst fails because it tries to pass -1 as a GID to enewgroup, which dies because -1 is an invalid GID. Log is attached. To fix this, either acct-group should pass something different to enewgroup instead of -1 or user.eclass should be fixed to make enewgroup handle this case.
Created attachment 609514 [details, diff] 0001-user.eclass-enewgroup-allow-1-as-gid.patch Could you try the attached patch? I've copied the code from enewuser but I can't test it right now.
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The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=9370ca73534408e928474c4a808eb04051e435d3 commit 9370ca73534408e928474c4a808eb04051e435d3 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-01-31 14:56:48 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-02-26 10:28:27 +0000 user.eclass: enewgroup, allow -1 as gid Allow using '-1' to specify 'next free GID' for enewgroup. While technically this can already be specified by omitting gid, allowing -1 improves consistency with enewuser. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/707508 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> eclass/user.eclass | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
