Bug 99466 – asterisk ebuild adds group & user during src_install() stage instead of pkg_preinst()

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Gabe 2005-07-18 14:56:11 UTC]

When emerging asterisk with the -G option, the environment for running asterisk
is not fully set up and therefore there is a "group & user does not exist"
error. From my observations, this is what is happening:

In the src_install() stage is where the ebuild creates the astrisk group and
user. But, when installing a binary directly, the src_unpack() compile() and
install() stages are skipped. As a result, the user does not get added.




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -G asterisk
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
asterisk is installed, but cannot run.

Expected Results:  
The ebuild should have a pkg_preinst() stage to add the group and user.  That
way, the step will always be done.

[Comment 1 Gabe 2005-07-18 18:12:36 UTC]

by taking these line out of the src_compile stage, the problem is gone:



pkg_preinst() {
        einfo "adding asterisk user and group"

        if [[ -z "$(egetent passwd asterisk)" ]]; then
                einfo "Adding asterisk user and group"
                enewgroup asterisk
                enewuser asterisk -1 /bin/false /var/lib/asterisk asterisk
        fi

        # fix permissions
        for x in spool run lib log; do
                chown -R asterisk:asterisk ${D}/var/${x}/asterisk
                chmod -R u=rwX,g=rX,o=     ${D}/var/${x}/asterisk
        done

        chown -R root:asterisk ${D}/etc/asterisk
        chmod -R u=rwX,g=rX,o= ${D}/etc/asterisk
}

[Comment 2 Stefan Knoblich (RETIRED) 2005-09-08 15:11:37 UTC]

moved parts from src_install into pkg_preinst, thanks, fixed