| Summary: | x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-0.8 creates a symlink to a non-existing directory | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Bruno Roggeri <bruno.roggeri> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 2006.0 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Not xkeyboard-config, besides, it gets created just fine. # equery b /var/lib/xkb [ Searching for file(s) /var/lib/xkb in *... ] x11-apps/xkbcomp-1.0.2 (/var/lib/xkb) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122214 *** *** Bug 143338 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |
I noticed this because it made my xorg-server-1.0.2-r7 emerge fail in the "merge" step. I was working on a fresh gentoo install. The problem is that xkeyboard-config installs /usr/share/xkb/compiled as a symlink to the /var/lib/xkb directory, but the later isn't created. Later, when the xorg-server tries to install a file in /usr/share/xkb/compiled, it doesn't create the directory because there's already a symlink, but as it points to an invalid location, the merge fails ("cannot write to /usr/share/xkb/compiled"). Work-around : create /var/lib/xkb yourself Suggested fix : make xkeyboard-config ebuild create /var/lib/xkb