Bug 415911

Summary:	/var/log/portage/ not owned by an ebuild
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christian Affolter <c.affolter>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	dev-zero
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christian Affolter 2012-05-14 11:23:18 UTC

The directory /var/log/portage/elog and its parent /var/log/portage aren't owned by an ebuild. They're present within the stage3 tarball.

On prefixed ROOT=/path/to/chroot emerge [...] installations this directory needs to be created manually. It would be helpful if those directory would be created by an ebuild, such as sys-apps/portage.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-05-15 15:24:41 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> On prefixed ROOT=/path/to/chroot emerge [...] installations this directory
> needs to be created manually.

Why do you say that? They are supposed to be created automatically by portage.

Comment 2 Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-05-06 10:12:30 UTC

Portage installs a logrotate.d/ file referencing /var/log/portage/elog but doesn't create that directory. In case that directory is not created (for example on a prefix'ed install) logrotate gives an error about the missing directory.
Please 'keepdir' /var/log/portage/elog

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-05-06 21:42:38 UTC

Thanks, this is fixed in cvs.