When i emerge an ebuild with an enewser line (for example mldonkey) it didn't create the home. The line is such as: enewuser ${MLUSER} -1 /bin/bash /home/p2p users (this is from mldonkey). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: Didn't create the home. Expected Results: Create the home, obviously. emerge info /usr/portage/packages Portage 2.0.50_pre9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20031212-r0, 2.4.22-gentoo-test-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-test-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.50GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib apm arts avi berkdb bidi bindinst cdr crypt cups dedicated dga directfb doc dvd encode esd faad fbcon foomaticdb gatos gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java joystick jpeg kde ldap libdsk libg++ libwww lirc mad matroska mikmod mmx motif mozcalendar mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang slp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype v4l wxwindows x86 xchattext xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon linguas_es"
it does create the directories, portage just turns around and deletes them *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16162 ***