Bug 521862

Summary:	sys-libs/timezone-data: do all live fs modification in pkg_preinst
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mart Raudsepp <leio>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	487192
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Description Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2014-09-01 01:29:10 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #487192 +++

For Bug 487192 and maybe earlier timezone-data is touching live system in pkg_setup phase. This makes things like ebuild timezone-data-2014f.ebuild prepare fail for regular users. Shouldn't hacks like these be done in pkg_preinst?

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2014-09-02 14:15:46 UTC

the point of pkg_setup is to allow process to modify the rootfs, so there is no bug in that regard

iirc, the symlink modification was done in pkg_setup because pkg_preinst was too late for the various portage checks (collision detection / filetype changes / etc...) -- they run after src_install finishes but before pkg_preinst runs.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-08-21 21:43:42 UTC

this is no longer an issue starting with timezone-data-2015c-r1