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  • [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] add net-mail/mailbase to @system

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 24 02:10:01 2025
    From: Matt Jolly <[email protected]>

    Ran into this while debugging a WSL user creation script.
    It seems to have been an issue for quite a while, doesn't
    really cost us anything to fix, and is probably better at
    meeting user expectations than the current behaviour.

    Matt Jolly (1):
    profiles/default/linux: add net-mail/mailbase to @system

    profiles/default/linux/packages | 3 ++-
    1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 24 02:20:01 2025
    From: Matt Jolly <[email protected]>

    The Gentoo Handbook has, for a long time, provided instructions to create
    new users with the -m flag. However, this now results in the error
    "Creating mailbox file: No such file or directory" because
    `/var/spool/mail` is no longer included in stage3 tarballs.

    It can also be assumed that most seasoned Linux/Unix users
    expect local mail delivery (and in particular user mailboxes)
    are included in a standard distribution (i.e. not bloat).

    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/520064
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/910754
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/920818
    Signed-off-by: Matt Jolly <[email protected]>
    ---
    profiles/default/linux/packages | 3 ++-
    1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

    diff --git a/profiles/default/linux/packages b/profiles/default/linux/packages index 6d35bf72e202..9bc63f1b7e12 100644
    --- a/profiles/default/linux/packages
    +++ b/profiles/default/linux/packages
    @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
    -# Copyright 2004-2021 Gentoo Authors.
    +# Copyright 2004-2025 Gentoo Authors.
    # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

    # This file extends the base packages file for the default profile that all
    @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
    # will have. Some will have an selinux profile (see ${PORTDIR}/profiles/selinux).
    # The idea is to only create a new family of profiles when absolutely necessary.

    +*net-mail/mailbase
    *sys-apps/iproute2
    *sys-apps/man-pages
    *sys-apps/net-tools
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  • From Mike Gilbert@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat May 24 19:40:01 2025
    On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

    From: Matt Jolly <[email protected]>

    The Gentoo Handbook has, for a long time, provided instructions to create
    new users with the -m flag. However, this now results in the error
    "Creating mailbox file: No such file or directory" because
    `/var/spool/mail` is no longer included in stage3 tarballs.

    An alternative would be to change the default shadow config to disable CREATE_MAIL_SPOOL, or switch to using MAIL_FILE (relative to home
    directory) instead.

    The @system change seems less disruptive.

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