725148 – app-portage/gentoolkit-0.5.0 eclean-dist removes /usr/portage/distfiles directory if it ends up empty

Bug 725148 - app-portage/gentoolkit-0.5.0 eclean-dist removes /usr/portage/distfiles directory if it ends up empty

Summary: app-portage/gentoolkit-0.5.0 eclean-dist removes /usr/portage/distfiles direc...

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage Tools Team

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Reported:	2020-05-25 07:00 UTC by July Tikhonov
Modified:	2021-12-23 15:01 UTC (History)
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Description July Tikhonov 2020-05-25 07:00:22 UTC

Steps to reproduce:
1) make it so that /usr/portage/distfiles does not contain useful files (i.e. that would not be removed by eclean-dist), but contains at least one file.
2) run eclean-dist or eclean-dist --deep
3) observe that /usr/portage/distfiles directory is no longer present

This is not a problem for portage itself (it will recreate this directory as needed), but subsequently running eclean-dist or eclean-pkg will give error like

!!! /usr/portage/distfiles does not appear to be a directory.
!!! Please set DISTDIR to a sane value.
!!! (Check your make.conf file and environment).

Expected result: eclean-dist does not break subsequent run of eclean-pkg, by either not removing the distfiles directory or by eclean-pkg not generating error out of this.

(gentoolkit-0.4.8 seems to have the same problem.)

Comment 1 Francesco Turco 2020-05-25 09:24:53 UTC

I can also reproduce this bug with app-portage/gentoolkit-0.5.0.