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From: Chris Houser <chouser@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Latest portage
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 18:42:28
Message-Id: 20011223194209.A313961@plato.zk3.dec.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Latest portage by Joshua Pierre
1 Joshua Pierre wrote: [Sun Dec 23 2001, 7:26:22PM EST]
2 > If you see chousers last email to the list there is a short mention
3 > about this new version of portage however he said it was masked, seems
4 > that's not the case.
5
6 Right-o. I forgot to commit. Sorry all, should be fixed in cvs now, in
7 rsync soon. Thanks for the catch.
8
9 > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 05:24:10PM -0700 or thereabouts, Collins Richey wrote:
10 > > after emerge rsync, I did an emerge sys-apps/portage, expecting
11 > > portage-1.8.0 per the changelog, but got portage-1.9.0_pre1 instead.
12 > >
13 > > emerge was ok, but when I tried to unmerge the previous portage, I got
14 > > the following
15 > >
16 > > root@g2r61 portage # cd /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/portage-1.7.7/
17 > > root@g2r61 portage-1.7.7 # ebuild portage-1.7.7.ebuild unmerge
18 > > Traceback (most recent call last):
19 > > File "/usr/sbin/ebuild", line 35, in ?
20 > > a=portage.doebuild(pargs[0],x,getroot(),debug=debug)
21 > > File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 718, in
22 > > doebuild a=open(settings["T"]+"/src_uri_new","w")
23 > > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
24 > > '/var/tmp/portage/portage-1.7.7/temp/src_uri_new'
25 >
26 > Try doing ebuild --stayroot portage-1.7.7.ebuild unmerge
27
28 That should work, but chowning all of /var/tmp/portage to be read/writable
29 by normal users would be the 'preferred' solution.
30
31 --Chouser