Rogue (in games-misc/bsd-games-non-free) keeps its high scores in /var/games/rogue.scores. Permissions on this file out of the ebuild are 750 root:games. Permissions on rogue are 0750. This does not allow rogue to save to its high scores file. Also, this file seems to evade the etc-update scheme, so every rebuild/update of bsd-games-non-free wipes it out and starts anew. This shouldn't happen either. I'm listing reproducibility as sometimes because I've only done this a couple of times and informally. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge bsd-games-non-free 2. play rogue and die or win. 3. Note error message saying it can't write to /var/games/rogue.scores 4. Change permissions to allow /var/games/rogue.scores to be written to. 5. Play again and die or win. 6. Gloat about your high score. 7. re-emerge or update bsd-games-non-free 8. Weep as your best score ever disappears into the bit bucket. Actual Results: see steps 3 and 8. Expected Results: It should have the correct permissions out of the emerge process and not get wiped out in update. # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11.10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11.10 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 10 2005, 18:18:11)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.9.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=pentium3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat4 /etc/tomcat5 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/games /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/www" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=pentium3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoclean autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cscope cups curl directfb emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran freetds gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang snmp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
ok, i can verify the permissions are screwed ... we fix them in src_install but then turn around and clobber all of the changes with `prepgamesdirs` however, my score file does not get erased when i re-emerge the package # cat /var/games/rogue.scores cat: /var/games/rogue.scores: No such file or directory # emerge bsd-games-non-free <snip> # echo asdf > /var/games/rogue.scores # emerge bsd-games-non-free <snip> # cat /var/games/rogue.scores asdf
ive fixed all the permissions issues now
