Bug 438792 – myspell-r2.eclass replaces dictionary with a symlink to file itself

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description MarisN 2012-10-18 12:36:28 UTC]

myspell-r2 during src_install creates symlink from /usr/share/hunspell/FOO to /usr/share/myspell/FOO. Following approach will fail on systems where /usr/share/hunspell already is a symlink to /usr/share/myspell. In such situation it creates symlink to file itself.

Still no idea why on my system hunspell is a symlink to myspell, but I assume it has a looooong forgotten history as it's not a fresh install.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
emerge myspell-lv myspell-pl
Actual Results:  
/usr/share/hunspell/lv_LV.dat is a symlink to file itself.

Expected Results:  
No symlink is created if /usr/share/hunspell is a symlink to /usr/share/myspell

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.11.29 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r2, 3.4.0-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.4.0-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P9500_@_2.53GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p37
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.9
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.27.1
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.10.5
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r3, 1.11.5, 1.12.3
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22.90
sys-devel/gcc:            4.5.3-r2, 4.6.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r3
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.5 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r2
Repositories: gentoo x-portage
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 skype-eula AdobeFlash-10.3 googleearth PUEL Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.tups.lv/source"
LANG="lv_LV"
LC_ALL="lv_LV.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="lv pl en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/maris/soft/portage"
SYNC="rsync://gentoo.tups.lv/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding brother_devices_dcp585cw bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli clucene consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dell dhcpcd dri dts dvd dvdr eap-tls emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gallium gdal gdbm geos gif glib gpm gpu hal iconv icu idn inotify ipv6 jpeg json kde kvm laptop lcms ldap libnotify lzma mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib multimedia ncurses nls nptl nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pppd proj python qemu qt3support qt4 readline sasl sdl semantic-desktop session sip slp spell sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb utf-8 vdpau vorbis wxwidgets x264 xa xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xmp xmpp xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="alias authz_host autoindex dir env headers mime rewrite vhost_alias log_config auth_basic authn_file authz_user cgi" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="words tables stage" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics mouse keyboard evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="lv pl en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nvidia nouveau" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2012-10-24 14:30:33 UTC]

Okey thats an issue.

But how can we figure out from where that symlink showed up?

[Comment 2 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2012-10-24 14:43:50 UTC]

I commited to cvs check for the symlink being there.

It now stops the install and requires user intervention.

As we don't know where from the symlink poped up it is best we can do.