From 299f2240a097d9d2172d638262cfe3667de3f2e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Z. Liu" <zhixu.liu@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:02:54 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] media-tv/mythtv: die if mythtv's home is not a directory

Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/763132
Signed-off-by: Z. Liu <zhixu.liu@gmail.com>
Part-of: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/45213
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
---
 media-tv/mythtv/mythtv-35.0_p20250723.ebuild | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/media-tv/mythtv/mythtv-35.0_p20250723.ebuild b/media-tv/mythtv/mythtv-35.0_p20250723.ebuild
index e7d8bc15e1547..70ef5e09cf92a 100644
--- a/media-tv/mythtv/mythtv-35.0_p20250723.ebuild
+++ b/media-tv/mythtv/mythtv-35.0_p20250723.ebuild
@@ -149,6 +149,17 @@ python_check_deps() {
 	python_has_version "dev-python/requests-cache[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
 }
 
+pkg_pretend() {
+	if use autostart; then
+		local HOME_MYTHTV=$(egethome mythtv)
+		if [[ ! -z "${HOME_MYTHTV}" && ! -d "${HOME_MYTHTV}" ]] ; then
+			eerror "Home path '${HOME_MYTHTV}' for user 'mythtv' exists" \
+				"but is not a directory"
+			die
+		fi
+	fi
+}
+
 pkg_setup() {
 	use python && python-any-r1_pkg_setup
 }