415911 – /var/log/portage/ not owned by an ebuild

Bug 415911 - /var/log/portage/ not owned by an ebuild

Summary: /var/log/portage/ not owned by an ebuild

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	InVCS

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Reported:	2012-05-14 11:23 UTC by Christian Affolter
Modified:	2013-05-06 21:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Christian Affolter 2012-05-14 11:23:18 UTC

The directory /var/log/portage/elog and its parent /var/log/portage aren't owned by an ebuild. They're present within the stage3 tarball.

On prefixed ROOT=/path/to/chroot emerge [...] installations this directory needs to be created manually. It would be helpful if those directory would be created by an ebuild, such as sys-apps/portage.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-05-15 15:24:41 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> On prefixed ROOT=/path/to/chroot emerge [...] installations this directory
> needs to be created manually.

Why do you say that? They are supposed to be created automatically by portage.

Comment 2 Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-05-06 10:12:30 UTC

Portage installs a logrotate.d/ file referencing /var/log/portage/elog but doesn't create that directory. In case that directory is not created (for example on a prefix'ed install) logrotate gives an error about the missing directory.
Please 'keepdir' /var/log/portage/elog

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-05-06 21:42:38 UTC

Thanks, this is fixed in cvs.