Bug 692160

Summary:	acct-user/man-0: fails to install with FEATURES=noman
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marcus Comstedt <marcus>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Marcus Comstedt 2019-08-14 19:56:50 UTC

If acct-user/man is emerged with FEATURES=noman, the install fails as follows:

--8<--
>>> Install acct-user/man-0 into /usr/arm-linux-gnueabihf/tmp/portage/acct-user/man-0/image
>>> Completed installing acct-user/man-0 into /usr/arm-linux-gnueabihf/tmp/portage/acct-user/man-0/image

 * Final size of build directory:  4 KiB
 * Final size of installed tree:  16 KiB

>>> Done.

>>> Installing (1 of 1) acct-user/man-0::gentoo to /usr/arm-linux-gnueabihf/
chown: cannot access '/usr/arm-linux-gnueabihf/tmp/portage/acct-user/man-0/image/usr/share/man': No such file or directory
 * ERROR: acct-user/man-0::gentoo failed (preinst phase):
 *   fowners failed
--8<--

While trying to install acct-user/man with FEATURES=noman might seems like
a crackpot thing to do, it actually isn't -- @system depends on virtual/man
from whence there is a dependency chain back to acct-user/man (via
sys-apps/man-db), so on a system where noman is enabled globally it is possible
to end up in this situation.

Workarounds include emerging acct-user/man specifically with FEATURES=-noman,
or using sys-apps/man (which does not depend on acct-user/man) instead of
sys-apps/man-db to satisfy virtual/man.  The error message reproduced above
does not give much help in finding these solutions though.  :-)

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2019-08-14 20:02:25 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 691478 ***