ports/66439: portupgrade -R pilot-link-0.11.8_2 fails with latest cvsup

[Stacey Roberts]

The following reply was made to PR ports/66439; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stacey Roberts <stacey at vickiandstacey.com>
To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx at aldan.algebra.com>,
	Stacey Roberts <stacey at vickiandstacey.com>,
	FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome at freebsd.org>,
	freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/66439: portupgrade -R pilot-link-0.11.8_2 fails with latest cvsup
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 00:07:26 +0100

 Hi,
   
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>"
 To: To Mikhail Teterin
 Date: Mon, 10 May, 2004 22:36 BST
 Subject: Re: ports/66439: portupgrade -R pilot-link-0.11.8_2 fails with latest cvsup
 
 > On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 17:27, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
 > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/66439
 > > 
 > > =	=== Aborted, please remove /nonexistent
 > > 
 > > =I noted the message, but I'm a bit weary of removing that directory as
 > > =its was created, and being used by gdm, the www user and one or two
 > > =others *by default*. That is, I did-not-create-that directory.
 > > 
 > > =What I'm curious about is the fact that I've been using FreeBSD / Gnome
 > > =/ Evolution / pilot-link on this box for years, without having this
 > > =issue until now. Is there something in this..,
 > > 
 > > I made pilot-link default to Tk-8.4 (rather than 8.3 as before). So it
 > > tries to build Tk-8.4 and fails because /nonexistent is there. I have no
 > > idea, why gdm would create it... Gnome, any comments?
 > 
 > We don't create it explicitly, but it is used for the gdm user home
 > directory.  Perhaps pw is creating it...
 
 Had a look through man pw(8), and here is the relevant section:
 
 -s shell   Set or changes the user's login shell to shell.  If the
    path to the shell program is omitted, pw searches the
    shellpath specified in /etc/pw.conf and fills it in as
    appropriate.  Note that unless you have a specific reason
    to do so, you should avoid specifying the path - this will
    allow pw to validate that the program exists and is exe-
    cutable.  Specifying a full path (or supplying a blank ""
    shell) avoids this check and allows for such entries as
    /nonexistent that should be set for accounts not intended
    for interactive login.
 
 So for those users / applications that should not be issued with logins (like gdm, www & nobody) get issued with "/nonexistent" as home dirs by default. I've mentioned this before in another thread previously, but didn't get very far with the maintainer concerned at the time, who insisted that I "must have created /nonexistent myself" at some point.
 
 I'd be interested to see how this turns out, please.
 
 Regards,
 
 Stacey
 
 > 
 > Joe
 > 
 > > 
 > > If you are happy with Tk-8.3 and don't want to install 8.4 just for
 > > pilot-link, you can add TCL_VER=8.3 to either /etc/make.conf or to the
 > > make's command line.
 > > 
 > > 	-mi
 > > 
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 Stacey Roberts
 B. Sc (HONS) Computer Science
 
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