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Bug 31260 - apache 2.0.47 ebuild fails if user apache has home dir set as /dev/null
Summary: apache 2.0.47 ebuild fails if user apache has home dir set as /dev/null
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Web Application Packages Maintainers
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Reported: 2003-10-16 03:57 UTC by ozymandias
Modified: 2003-10-30 09:57 UTC (History)
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Description ozymandias 2003-10-16 03:57:51 UTC 
in apache-2.0.47.ebuild line 51 it says:
      local datadir=`getent passwd apache | cut -d: -f6`
and if not there, datadir becomes /home/httpd, but if the home has been defined as /dev/null (for 
safety reasons) then portage will break while installing apache because it is going to move /dev/
null to /dev/null.backup which is 'not permitted' so also check for /dev/null in the ebuild.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. edit passwd end set homedir of apache user to /dev/null
2. USE="apache2" emerge apache
Actual Results:  
>>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/apache-2.0.47/image/

>>> Merging net-www/apache-2.0.47 to /
--- /dev/
!!! Failed to move /dev/null to /dev/null.backup
!!! [Errno 1] Operation not permitted


Expected Results:  
an installed apache 2.0.47

Portage 2.0.49-r13-2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4, 2.4.21_rc2-gss
)
============================================================
=====
System uname: 2.4.21_rc2-gss i686 VIA Ezra
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.9
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/confi
g /usr/kde/3/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linu
x/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm arts avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif gpm imlib jpeg libg++ mad 
mikmod motif ncurses nls opengl pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv
 zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline svga java mysql sdl tcpd pam libwww perl python
 oggvorbis -X -gtk -gnome -kde -alsa -qt -cups -mpeg apache2 ssl ldap"
Comment 1 Donny Davies (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-30 09:57:33 UTC 
This will not be a problem since Apache-2.0.48.ebuild is now the default.

That dynamic detection crud was removed a little while ago...

I dont know what you are hoping to gain from changing user apache's home
directory to /dev/null.

What is a "safety" reason?