On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 1:04 PM Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > I would like to create an acct-user package for the 'portage' user, > but I'm having trouble deciding on a home directory. > > baselayout currently sets it to /var/tmp/portage, and this just seems > like a bad idea to me. I'm pretty sure we have a QA policy against > installing files there anyway. > > If we set the home directory to /dev/null, this may cause problems for > unit tests that expect the account to have a valid home directory. For > example, see this bug report for app-shells/ksh, which is about a test > case that fails when the HOME environment variable is unset. It also > fails if the home directory is not a directory (/dev/null). > > https://github.com/att/ast/issues/1391 > > /x/portage/app-shells/ksh-2020.0.0_beta1/work/ksh-2020.0.0_beta1-build/src/cmd/ksh93/ksh[5]: > cd: /dev/null: [Not a directory] > <E> builtins[494]: cd with no arguments fails if HOME is unset > <W> builtins[-1]: error_count = 1 > > So, I guess we should pick somewhere to create an empty directory for > portage. Any suggestions?
/var/lib/portage/home was suggested in IRC. If there are any objections to that path, please make them known.
