[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: die explicitly if HOME is missing in preinst

[Mike Gilbert]

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/691478
---
 eclass/acct-user.eclass | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/eclass/acct-user.eclass b/eclass/acct-user.eclass
index 60009643c144..008dc6bb7d68 100644
--- a/eclass/acct-user.eclass
+++ b/eclass/acct-user.eclass
@@ -334,6 +334,14 @@ acct-user_pkg_preinst() {
                if [[ -z ${ACCT_USER_HOME_OWNER} ]]; then
                        
ACCT_USER_HOME_OWNER=${ACCT_USER_NAME}:${ACCT_USER_GROUPS[0]}
                fi
+               # Path might be missing due to INSTALL_MASK, etc.
+               # https://bugs.gentoo.org/691478
+               if [[ ! -e "${ED}/${ACCT_USER_HOME#/}" ]]; then
+                       eerror "Home directory is missing from the installation 
image:"
+                       eerror "  ${ACCT_USER_HOME}"
+                       eerror "Check INSTALL_MASK for entries that would cause 
this."
+                       die "${ACCT_USER_HOME} does not exist"
+               fi
                fowners "${ACCT_USER_HOME_OWNER}" "${ACCT_USER_HOME}"
                fperms "${ACCT_USER_HOME_PERMS}" "${ACCT_USER_HOME}"
        fi
-- 
2.23.0.rc2