[MBT] new ticket for pkg cvs-pserver "Version 1.11.8: Fails to create directory upon installation & fails to install"

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Date: 2003-12-05 15:09:44+01	Author:  (kreutzm) <kreutzm at itp.uni-hannover.de> 
Title:         Version 1.11.8: Fails to create directory upon installation & fails to install
Ticket ID:     #783
Ticket URL:    http://bugs.pld-linux.org/?bug=783
Package:       cvs-pserver-1:1.11.5-2
Distribution:  PLD-1.0.updates.security
Category:      bug in rpm's scripts
Current state: opened
Text:

I tried to install pserver on a server, which does not have any hoem directories (they are mounted via NFS if necessary), but the RPM refused to install:

cvs [init aborted]: cannot make directory /home/services/cvsroot: No such file or directory
chown: failed to get attributes of `/home/services/cvsroot/CVSROOT': No such file or directory

I checked, there is no "/home/services" on this machine.

Since RPMs cannto ask questions upon installation, I do not know a elegant way to fix this; at least an
mkdir -p
should be made at installation time, though this is of course suboptimal if I want to have the CVS somewhere else.