Bug 47342

Summary:	sys-apps/baselayout can't be emerged when /mnt is an autofs dir
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stefan Briesenick (RETIRED) <sbriesen>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stefan Briesenick (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-09 06:38:53 UTC

on my PCs, /mnt is an autofs basedir, so all autofs mounts are under /mnt.
The problem is, that /mnt itself is readonly then. 'baselayout' wants to write '.keep' into /mnt and throws an error.

Now I could change my autofs configuration to a different basedir, but that's really odd. I want autofs to use /mnt like I always did since years.

And stopping autofs during the emerge isn't an option, because my distfiles are on one of the mount points. :-/

same problem with /home.

IMHO is .keep not really needed for /mnt and /home, since no package will ever install files into these directories. And so, an "emerge -C" will never remove these directories. btw: you could modify emerge to use a blacklist for special directories (configurable in /etc/conf.d). This way, the filesystem isn't crowded by .keep files in major system directories. Other directories can be protected with .keep files. But not /etc /home /mnt /dev /sys /proc and such.

please remove .keep from 'baselayout'.

Thanks!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure autofs to use /mnt
2. try "emerge baselayout"
3. it will break while merging

Actual Results:  
baselayout can't be emerged when /mnt is an autofs dir. 

Expected Results:  
baselayout can be emerged w/o problems.

Comment 1 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-09 07:42:13 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9849 ***