games being created under the new /usr/games directory not getting changed permissions, ie /usr/games/ and subdirs are owned by root.root and should be owned by root.games at the least as a trivial side note..the games/file dirs are all over the place.. I have binaries in /usr/bin (armagetron,lbreakout,lbreakout2,circuslinux) binaries which are user unavailable in /usr/games/bin (xmahjongg) and docs anf config files everywhere (armagetron and circuslinux under /usr/share, breakout and breakout2, and xmahjongg under /usr/share/doc) plus I have /usr/local/games which Ill probably never use..as un-portaged stuff here goes in opt..but thats my preference. Id just like to see permissions fixed and games localized...Thank you
'games being created under the new /usr/games directory not getting changed permissions' what games ? as for not all games using /usr/games its because we havent updated all the ebuilds to use it yet ... just too much work for us atm
I had a few mins to mess with this this morning and after manually fixing permissions on the /usr/games /usr/share/games dirs, subsequent games were still being installed as root.root. However I have currently found the problem and not quite sure what the universal solution is. I created the faux user games and permissions got fixed and everything was right in the world. Im pretty confident that Im not the only one missing a games user and it should be 35 games user(to match group #) rather than a created (1000+) games user. Off the record, I get the feeling Im annoying you vapier, and if thats the case, let me know and I'll quit committing bugs.
'games' comes in as part of the base system ... in both the passwd file and the group file ... so if its not working, its probably because the person removed the user/group ... what version (of Gentoo) did you install originally ? games should have been there since before 1.0 ... as for me being annoyed by you, i honestly have no idea what you're refering to ... unless you can point me at some bugs with which i could refresh my memory, i'd have to say 'nope' ;)
actually, quick mental note, ill add an additional check to the games_pkg_postinst() function that'll display an error/warning message if no 'games' user or 'games' group could be located
I installed from stage one on a 1.4rc1 disk I bought from tuxcds.com. I can guarantee I didnt remove it, because I didnt know it was there:) Baselayout won't automatically update passwd and group, so its catch-22 for some people. I inquired on IRC last nite and apparently some people have a games user and others do not.Not anticipating any sort of automatic update to remedy it, I manually rebuilt my passwd and group files.As I noticed you may decide to include a warning on missing games user/group, would it be possible to have the eclass create the nonexisting one?(not thinking of my benefit..Ive fixed my problem..but others less inclined to mess with their system files may be relieved) :)
i'm a little against ebuilds creating users/groups (imo none should ...) but i guess until we have a better way of doing it, ill have the eclass add the groups/users if they dont exist
*** Bug 7615 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
should be all set now http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/eclass/games.eclass.diff?r1=1.22&r2=1.23
