Bug 145357 – webapps.eclass: server-owned -R fails with symbolic links

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description ml 2006-08-28 07:33:40 UTC]

The 'server-owned -R' command fails in an Ebuild in case the directory contains symbolic links.

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 * ebuild fault: file '/usr/share/webapps/linux_mtpcenter/1.5_beta1/htdocs/vdr/movie' not found
 * Please report this as a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org/

!!! ERROR: media-video/linux_mtpcenter-1.5_beta1 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1539:   Called dyn_install
  ebuild.sh, line 1013:   Called src_install
  linux_mtpcenter-1.5_beta1.ebuild, line 55:   Called webapp_serverowned '-R' '/usr/share/webapps/linux_mtpcenter/1.5_beta1/htdocs'
  webapp.eclass, line 214:   Called webapp_checkfileexists '/usr/share/webapps/linux_mtpcenter/1.5_beta1/htdocs/vdr/movie' '/var/tmp/portage/linux_mtpcenter-1.5_beta1/image/'
  webapp.eclass, line 81:   Called die

!!! ebuild fault: file '/usr/share/webapps/linux_mtpcenter/1.5_beta1/htdocs/vdr/movie' not found
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

!!! This ebuild is from an overlay: '/usr/local/portage'

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[Comment 1 Renat Lumpau (RETIRED) 2006-08-28 07:50:45 UTC]

Please attach your ebuild

[Comment 2 ml 2006-08-28 12:19:07 UTC]

Created attachment 95315 [details]
Initial ebuild for mtpcenter

[Comment 3 ml 2006-08-28 12:21:59 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Created an attachment (id=95315) [edit]
> Initial ebuild for mtpcenter
> 

The attached ebuild is working, but if you drop the clean/rm statements or move the dosyms before the server_owned-statement server_owned fails because of symbolic links in ${MY_HTDOCSDIR}

[Comment 4 Renat Lumpau (RETIRED) 2007-01-02 13:49:48 UTC]

1) tell upstream to stop shipping tarballs with broken symlinks to device files
2) don't use -R