Bug 343219

Summary:	net-im/minbif-1.0.3: Bad perms, misplaced enewuser/enewgroup ?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Cyprien Nicolas (fulax) <cyprien>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Cédric Krier <cedk>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Cyprien Nicolas (fulax) 2010-10-29 07:44:09 UTC

Salut Cedric,

I just emerged net-im/minbif-1.0.3, and saw the following failures during src_install:

...
chown: invalid user: `minbif:minbif'
fowners failed
>>> Completed installing minbif-1.0.3 into /var/tmp/portage/net-im/minbif-1.0.3/image/

Looking at the ebuild, the user and group are created in pkg_preinst. But pkg_preinst is ran after src_install, thus the fowners call fails.

Thus, after merge:

# ls -alH /var/lib/minbif
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x  2 minbif root 4.0K Oct 29 09:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 47 root   root 4.0K Oct 29 09:24 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root    0 Oct 29 09:24 .keep_net-im_minbif-0

The group is not set, but worst, the perms are not 700 but 755 !?

Re-emerging the package didn't change anything, apart from removing the "invalid user" message.


Checking info in the devmanual [1] make me thinks that it is not correct; enewuser should be in pkg_setup if needed during src_compile OR src_install.

[1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/users-and-groups/index.html

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-07-24 17:43:59 UTC

+*minbif-1.0.5 (24 Jul 2012)
+
+  24 Jul 2012; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> +files/minbif-1.0.5-gcc47.patch,
+  +files/minbif-1.0.5-glib-single-includes.patch, +minbif-1.0.5.ebuild:
+  Version bump, also fix gcc-4.7 and glib-2.32 compilation, and create
+  user/group properly (#343219 by fulax).
+