Bug 120941 – portage allows installing files into ${D}/${D}

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Simon Stelling (RETIRED) 2006-01-30 07:20:00 UTC]

lately i saw quite a lot of packages installing files to /var/tmp/portage/${P}/usr/lib/... instead of just /usr/lib. This completely breaks most (all?) packages and should of course get fixed as soon as possible. I suggest to add a small patch which enables checking for ${D}/${D} and dies if files are found. This would make catching these cases much easier for the ebuild devs and hopefully increase QA a lot.

Sample output:

[...]
QA Notice: /var/tmp/portage/grub-0.96-r2/image//usr/share/man/man8/grub-install.8 installed to ${D}/${D}
QA Notice: /var/tmp/portage/grub-0.96-r2/image//usr/share/man/man8/grub-md5-crypt.8 installed to ${D}/${D}
QA Notice: /var/tmp/portage/grub-0.96-r2/image//usr/share/man/man8/grub-terminfo.8 installed to ${D}/${D}

!!! ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2 failed.
!!! Function dyn_install, Line 1025, Exitcode 0
!!! Aborting due to QA concerns: 39 files installed to /var/tmp/portage/grub-0.96-r2/image///var/tmp/portage/grub-0.96-r2/image/
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

[Comment 1 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) 2006-01-30 07:20:29 UTC]

Created attachment 78501 [details, diff]
patch to enable checking for files installed to ${D}/${D}

[Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) 2006-01-31 17:56:35 UTC]

I like this patch

[Comment 3 solar (RETIRED) 2006-02-01 12:57:41 UTC]

InSVN -r2620

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2006-02-26 14:55:16 UTC]

Released in 2.1_pre5.