Bug 674212

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: warn if portage user home directory does not exist
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Zac Medico <zmedico>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	james.al.stevenson
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811930
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2018-12-31 23:32:29 UTC

If the portage user's home directory does not exist, it can trigger unit test failures like in bug 674088. The portage.data._get_global already warns if the user is missing, so it could be extended to warn if the home directory does not exist.

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2021-09-04 11:53:53 UTC

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=97f1f6a42796c91bf1eba628605c4ef641dcc532

commit 97f1f6a42796c91bf1eba628605c4ef641dcc532
Author:     James Stevenson <james.al.stevenson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: 2021-09-04 09:53:46 +0000
Commit:     Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-09-04 11:51:28 +0000

    Warn if portage home directory is missing
    
    Signed-off-by: James Stevenson <james.al.stevenson@gmail.com>
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/674212
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/736
    Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>

 lib/portage/data.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)