On 10/02/2014 16:05, Stroller wrote:
Hello all,
I'm a little bit rusty, but my recollection is that I should be able to perform
`eix-sync` (or `emerge --sync`?) as a user to synchronise my local copy of the
portage tree with Gentoo's master portage tree.
User is in the portage group:
$ whoami
stroller
$ groups stroller
wheel audio video portage cron users
$
Yet I get these permissons denied errors:
$ eix-sync
* Running emerge --sync
Synchronization of repository 'gentoo' located in '/usr/portage'...
Starting rsync with rsync://91.186.30.235/gentoo-portage...
Checking server timestamp …
…
receiving incremental file list
rsync: delete_file: unlink(app-accessibility/caribou/caribou-0.4.12.ebuild)
failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: delete_file:
unlink(app-accessibility/emacspeak/files/emacspeak-33.0-respect-ldflags.patch)
failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: delete_file:
unlink(app-accessibility/emacspeak/files/emacspeak-33.0-greader-garbage.patch)
failed: Permission denied (13)
(full output attached)
Googling the problem I see a bunch of Gentoo Forums posts talking about
changing at random the permissions of /var/tmp/ or /var/tmp/portage/, but no
rationale is given, and I don't think this is the cause:
$ emerge --info | grep -i tmpdir
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
$ ls -ld /var/tmp/
drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 Feb 5 13:47 /var/tmp/
$ ls -ld /var/tmp/portage/
drwxrwxr-x 5 portage portage 4096 Feb 5 12:32 /var/tmp/portage/
$
More likely seems to be the permissions of /usr/portage/:
$ ls -ld /usr/portage/
drwxr-xr-x 167 portage portage 4096 Jan 5 02:31 /usr/portage/
$ ls -ld /usr/portage/app-accessibility/caribou/caribou*.ebuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage 2432 Aug 25 23:11
/usr/portage/app-accessibility/caribou/caribou-0.4.12.ebuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage 2431 Dec 8 18:01
/usr/portage/app-accessibility/caribou/caribou-0.4.13.ebuild
$
This would seem to allow portage itself to synchronise the Portage tree, but
not members of the portage group.
I am able to run `emerge --sync` as root, but it doesn't solve the solve the
problem - next time I run `eix-sync` as user, I'm permissions denied, again.
Shouldn't a sync reset the permissions of the portage tree to be correct?
`emerge --info | grep -i feature` shows that FEATURES="userfetch userpriv
usersandbox usersync" (and some others - see attached) are set.
I can reproduce this on a second AMD64 machine, both are running portage-2.2.7.
Thanks in advance for any help, advice or suggestions you can offer,
This should work:-
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--chmod=g+w"
--Kerin
