Bug 605364

Summary:	dev-libs/kpathsea-6.2.1_p20150521-r2 : installs into paths that should be created at runtime
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Toralf Förster <toralf>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Alexis Ballier <aballier>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	fturco, jstein, tex
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	520404

Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2017-01-11 09:21:13 UTC

QA: preinst
QA Notice: Symbolic link /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf points to /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf which does not exist.
QA Notice: Symbolic link /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf points to /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf which does not exist.
QA: other
QA Notice: This ebuild installs into paths that should be created at runtime.
 To fix, simply do not install into these directories.  Instead, your package
 should create dirs on the fly at runtime as needed via init scripts/etc...

  var/cache
  var/cache/fonts

Comment 1 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2017-01-11 09:36:22 UTC

*** Bug 605366 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2017-06-11 10:48:10 UTC

This QA problem is still in kpathsea-6.2.3_p20170524

Comment 3 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2019-06-28 17:53:24 UTC

*** Bug 677180 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2019-06-28 17:54:43 UTC

*** Bug 670434 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2019-09-28 15:48:37 UTC

*** Bug 647310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Francesco Turco 2020-03-05 15:38:59 UTC

I can still reproduce this bug with dev-libs/kpathsea-6.3.1_p20190410.

Comment 7 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2021-04-02 07:25:12 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6c71f0cce20b1ba654b8ab81515231ce5796b24d

commit 6c71f0cce20b1ba654b8ab81515231ce5796b24d
Author:     Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-04-02 07:19:48 +0000
Commit:     Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-04-02 07:20:37 +0000

    dev-libs/kpathsea: Use tmpfiles for runtime dirs
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/605364
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.17, Repoman-3.0.2
    Signed-off-by: Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@gentoo.org>

 dev-libs/kpathsea/kpathsea-6.3.2_p20200406.ebuild | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)