Re: [gentoo-alt] bootstrap-prefix.sh / bootstrap-rap.sh failing on OpenSUSE Leap

[Benda Xu]

Hi Matthias,

Matthias Gerstner <mgerstner@××××.de> writes:

> I think I found the cause of the trouble:
>
> The group id used comes a long way ... in
>
> ${EPREFIX}/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/portage/data.py function _init(settings)
>
> a global variable '_portage_grpname' is initialized from a settings
> variable 'PORTAGE_GRPNAME' which is setup in
>
> ${EPREFIX}/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py function config._init(...)
>
> where basically an os.stat() is made on 'eroot_or_parent' which in this
> case is ${EPREFIX}.
>
> And in my case the ${EPREFIX} was group-owned by root. Doing a
>
> chown "${EPREFIX}" <my-group>
>
> fixed the situation. The stage3 went through now.

Thank you for your time trouble-shooting. Portage should have been
smarter in such cases.

By the way, I have set up a openSUSE 42.1 yesterday on lxc and tested
out the bootstrap.  It also worked well. Appended an openSUSE entry to
the table:

  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/libc#Tested_Distributions

Yours,
Benda