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Hi, |
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Recently I was experimenting with installing prefix on a SLC6.6 system |
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with the home directory on AFS (Andrew File System). |
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Things went smoothly until I got to bootstrapping stage3, more |
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specifically at |
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USE="-git" emerge -u system |
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I started seeing the following errors (ofcourse ${EPREFIX} was the correct |
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path): |
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!!! Directory initialization failed: '${EPREFIX}/gentoo/var/lib/portage' |
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!!! chmod('${EPREFIX}/gentoo/var/lib/portage', 0o2755) |
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!!! Problem with sandbox binary. Disabling... |
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Calculating dependencies |
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* IMPORTANT: 10 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo_prefix'. |
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* Use eselect news read to view new items. |
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... done! |
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Permission denied: 'chmod('${EPREFIX}/gentoo/var/lib/portage', 0o2755)' |
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which showed up during any attempt at running emerge. Turns out either the fs or |
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administrator does not allow me to set the setgid bit. Fixing this requires |
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patching portage to not set `setgid` on set files, patch below. I have yet to |
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see any adverse effects of this change. Portage doesn't seem to provide an |
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epatch_user hook so I applied this change manually. |
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An additional thing I noticed is that since AFS doesn't allow the creation of |
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fifo pipes, portage fails at calls to `os.mkfifo` inside `_init_ipc_fifos`. |
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I had to place PORTAGE_TMPDIR onto a local filesystem - e.g /dev/shm (if it |
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isn't mounted with noexec). Probably would've bit me sooner but I did this |
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preemptively before bootstrapping in the hopes of speeding up the process. |
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After these changes, the prefix worked solidly as always. |
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Hope these notes turn out to be useful to someone. |
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Jeremi |
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diff --git a/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/_sets/files.py b/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/_sets/files.py |
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index e045701..f0c3c1f 100644 |
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--- a/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/_sets/files.py |
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+++ b/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/_sets/files.py |
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@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ class WorldSelectedPackagesSet(EditablePackageSet): |
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self._setAtoms(atoms) |
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def _ensure_dirs(self): |
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- ensure_dirs(os.path.dirname(self._filename), gid=portage_gid, mode=0o2750, mask=0o2) |
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+ ensure_dirs(os.path.dirname(self._filename), gid=portage_gid, mode=0o750, mask=0o2) |
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def lock(self): |
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if self._lock is not None: |
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