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Date:      Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:34:32 +0000
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To:        desktop@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 258372] x11-fonts/fontconfig: cannot install as user (into non-default prefix)
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--- Comment #2 from John Hein <jcfyecrayz@liamekaens.com> ---
I just tried 'make -C x11-fonts/fontconfig INSTALL_AS_USER=3D1
LOCALBASE=3D/usr/local.user PKG_DBDIR=3D/usr/local.user/var/db/pkg
PORT_DBDIR=3D/usr/local.user/var/db/ports install' as a non-root user.  Thi=
s is
with pkg-1.18.4.  I did not get 'Fail to create /var/db/fontconfig:Permissi=
on
denied'.

'deinstall' does produce 'pkg-static: unlinkat(var/db/fontconfig): Permissi=
on
denied', but that is not fatal - it does remove the installed package and d=
oes
return a exit code of 0 (indicating alleged success).  That might be consid=
ered
a bug in pkg.  It seems pkg_delete.c does not treat EPERM as an error.  But=
 in
that case (not treating a failed directory removal as an error) could be
reported as a separate bug for pkg perhaps.  If 'pkg delete' DID fail when
doing deinstall with INSTALL_AS_USER=3D1 (especially if it failed to fully =
remove
the package), then this current bug could become 'cannot deinstall as user'=
.=20
That is a different bug than this one, however.


I did notice that src/fccfg.c still points into a hard-coded /usr/local eve=
n if
you define LOCALBASE (and/or PREFIX) to something that is not /usr/local.  =
But
that is a separate bug - it should replace /usr/local with %%LOCALBASE%%, a=
nd
for that matter, files/fontconfig.ucl.in should use %%LOCALBASE%% instead of
%%PREFIX%% for the 'path' that looks in share/fonts and etc/fonts/conf.d.


So, it seems to me that the original problem reported here is not a problem
now, or at least I could not reproduce the failure.  I don't know what chan=
ged
between now and when this problem was reported.  In Sep 2021 (the latest pkg
was 1.17.1 then), I think pkg did not treat @dir entries any differently th=
an
it does now - i.e., @dir is only used when the package is deleted, per
pkg-create(8).  Gerald, can you confirm whether or not your failure can be
reproduced now?

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