Fails on emerge, groupadd command does not have -r option Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -av mail-mta/ssmtp 2. 3. Actual Results: output of /var/tmp/portage/mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r8/temp/build.log ^[[32;01m * ^[[39;49;00mPackage: mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r8 ^[[32;01m * ^[[39;49;00mRepository: gentoo ^[[32;01m * ^[[39;49;00mMaintainer: net-mail@gentoo.org ^[[32;01m * ^[[39;49;00mUSE: elibc_glibc ipv6 kernel_linux ssl userland_GNU x86 ^[[32;01m * ^[[39;49;00mFEATURES: sandbox ^[[32;01m*^[[0m Adding group 'ssmtp' to your system ... ^[[32;01m*^[[0m - Groupid: next available groupadd: invalid option -- 'r' Usage: groupadd [options] GROUP Options: -f, --force force exit with success status if the specified group already exists -g, --gid GID use GID for the new group -h, --help display this help message and exit -K, --key KEY=VALUE overrides /etc/login.defs defaults -o, --non-unique allow create group with duplicate (non-unique) GID ^[[31;01m*^[[0m ERROR: mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r8 failed (setup phase): ^[[31;01m*^[[0m enewgroup failed ^[[31;01m*^[[0m ^[[31;01m*^[[0m Call stack: ^[[31;01m*^[[0m ebuild.sh, line 56: Called pkg_setup ^[[31;01m*^[[0m ssmtp-2.62-r8.ebuild, line 37: Called enewgroup 'ssmtp' ^[[31;01m*^[[0m eutils.eclass, line 860: Called die ^[[31;01m*^[[0m The specific snippet of code: ^[[31;01m*^[[0m groupadd -r ${opts} ${egroup} || die "enewgroup failed" ^[[31;01m*^[[0m ^[[31;01m*^[[0m If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r8', ^[[31;01m*^[[0m the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r8'. ^[[31;01m*^[[0m The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r8/temp/build.log'. ^[[31;01m*^[[0m The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r8/temp/die.env'. ^[[31;01m*^[[0m S: '/var/tmp/portage/mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r8/work/ssmtp' Expected Results: made the group and continued Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, libc-0-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r4-i686-Intel-R-_Xeon-TM-_CPU_3.06GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 24 May 2011 17:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.1.2, 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 sys-libs/glibc: 2.10.1-r1 virtual/os-headers: 0 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ 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condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
That's an option introduced in 2008. Try upgrading sys-apps/shadow.
I just added the group manually and the remerged and it went fine. regardless of that, shouldn't then a certain version of shadow be a dependency?
No. sys-apps/shadow is not a direct dependency of ssmtp. It is called by eutils eclass which is by the way one of the most used eclasses in the tree. You will hit the same problem in any ebuild that adds a new user or a new group to your system. By adding the -r flag, base-system basically made an implicit minimum sys-apps/shodow version requirement to add new users/groups in an ebuild. As shadow-4.0 is no longer in the tree and my guess is it is no longer supported. You need to upgrade. Closing as invalid.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 367633 ***
