Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Nicholas Jones <>
To: omestre <omestre@×××××××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] access violation
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 04:59:25
Message-Id: 20040623045920.GA10938@twobit.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] access violation by omestre
1 > the wwwcount try change permissions (chmod), and maybe
2 > this procedure must be done by another way in gentoo
3 > portage installation process.
4
5 Inside of portage and the sandbox you are not allow to
6 directly access anything outside of ${D}.
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8 The package needs to do the chmod to the file inside of ${D}.
9
10 /foo/bar becomes ${D}/foo/bar
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12 Portage will maintain the exact permissions and ownerships
13 on the files when it actually merges it to the live FS.
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15 This can normally be accomplished with prefix options to
16 the makefile or configure script.
17
18 --NJ