I'm using automount/autofs to mount /home/ from a nfs server. when updating baselayout (probably other packages as well), the emerge finishes ok, but when copying the new files to their final destination it breaks when trying to create /home/.keep (impossible on automounted /home) The remaining files are not copied over, leaving the system in an inconsistent state (It was quite difficult to get it to boot again) I think an automounted /home is quite common in larger environments, so the ebuilds should be aware of this. (the apache ebuilds are an other example for this, they try to create /home/apache if not modified) Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. fail to update your system for a long time (uptime was about 200 days) 2. emerge -u baselayout 3. init 6 Actual Results: System didn't boot cause the init scripts didn't work Expected Results: ignore/warn about /home/.keep, continue copying remaining files.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9849 ***
