Hello!
The more I read about portage the more I like it, it has very nice
features. I Decided to use prefix on Ubuntu 16.04. The bootstrap script
successfully completed. I had to slightly modify my `bashrc`(default from
Ubuntu) since gentoo's `lesspipe` works differently, however `startprefix`
works as intended. In the stage logs I see various `chown` failures. Like
these:
```
chown failure ignored with unprivileged user:
* chown -R root:0 ${D}${EPREFIX}/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.0
* /bin/chown: changing ownership of
'${D}${EPREFIX}/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.0/libvtv.a': Operation
not permitted
* /bin/chown: changing ownership of
'${D}${EPREFIX}/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.0/libtsan_preinit.o':
Operation not permitted
...
```
It's interesting to note it uses Ubuntu's `chown`. I assume this fails
because `sudo` would be required. Does this affect me on using prefix? Some
other concerns:
```
* Failed to set PT_PAX markings -r
/home/ricardo/gentoo/tmp/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0-r3/image//home/ricardo/gentoo/tmp/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.0/cc1.
* Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings -r
/home/ricardo/gentoo/tmp/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0-r3/image//home/ricardo/gentoo/tmp/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.0/cc1.
* Failed to set PT_PAX markings -r
/home/ricardo/gentoo/tmp/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0-r3/image//home/ricardo/gentoo/tmp/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.0/cc1plus.
* Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings -r
/home/ricardo/gentoo/tmp/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0-r3/image//home/ricardo/gentoo/tmp/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.0/cc1plus
...
```
I assume because `chown` fails?
I am also curious as to the philosophy of Gentoo Prefix. Do I always use a
prefix sessions to work / use portage based packages? Is it possible for
more cohesion with my system packages? It would be nice to open gui apps
without launching them from the command line ( I assume that’s how you
would do it). Here is my `emerge --info` :
```
Portage 2.3.41 (python 3.5.5-final-0,
default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/prefix/kernel-3.2+, gcc-7.3.0,
glibc-2.27-r5, 4.13.0-45-generic x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-4.13.0-45-generic-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_CPU_4415U_@
_2.30GHz-with-debian-stretch-sid
KiB Mem: 3905956 total, 139788 free
KiB Swap: 4059132 total, 3843540 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 01:30:01 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: 1c5415775dabb4a420dcd040894c5f254ea034dd
sh bash 4.4_p23
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.30 p3) 2.30.0
app-shells/bash: 4.4_p23::gentoo
dev-lang/perl: 5.26.2::gentoo
dev-lang/python: 2.7.15::gentoo, 3.5.5-r1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.6::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.13::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/automake: 1.16.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils: 2.30-r3::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc: 7.3.0-r3::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.9.1::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r5::gentoo
sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r3::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.17::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc: 2.27-r5::gentoo
Repositories:
gentoo
location: /home/ricardo/gentoo/usr/portage
sync-type: rsync
sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
priority: -1000
sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24
sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes
sync-rsync-extra-opts:
sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf
/etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /home/ricardo/gentoo/etc/gentoo-release"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/home/ricardo/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles"
ENV_UNSET="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX
PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME
XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks
ebuild-locks fixlafiles force-prefix merge-sync multilib-strict news
parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms strict
unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans unprivileged"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org";
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/home/ricardo/gentoo/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/home/ricardo/gentoo/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats
--human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local
--exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/ricardo/gentoo/var/tmp"
USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm iconv ipv6
libtirpc modules ncurses nls nptl openmp pcre prefix readline seccomp ssl
tcpd unicode zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp
atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968
fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx
via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb
unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm
authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host
authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate
dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include
info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite
setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon plan sheets stage words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df
interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext
sse sse2" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore
fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom
oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2
timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput keyboard mouse"
KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216
lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console
presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice"
PHP_TARGETS="php5-6 php7-0" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres9_5 postgres10"
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5"
RUBY_TARGETS="ruby23" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu fbdev intel
nouveau radeon radeonsi vesa dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock
lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee
tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK,
LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
```
TIA
-- *Ricardo Grant*
Computer Science Student, Laurentian University
P: 705 470 5386
E: rgr...@laurentian.ca
