[gentoo-dev] CRITICAL: AMD64 Portage-2.0.51 Sandbox Problem

[Nicholas Jones]

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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68443

Affected Platform: AMD64
Affected Requirement: FEATURES=sandbox

Initial Problem:      Removal of sandbox library and binary.
Compounding Problems: Deletion of package files during update.

Most users will not be affected by this. Initial installs
may fail, and those having specifically enabled Sandbox on
AMD64 will be affected.

To determine if your machines are affected run emerge info
and view the FEATURES setting. If sandbox is listed, please
do the following: (It does no harm to do this anyway)

All AMD64 users are advised to do the following:
(Again, regardless of how recently this was done)

emerge sync
FEATURES=-sandbox emerge portage

The potential for portage to misbehave when interacting with
sandbox exists for 2.0.51_rc10 and 2.0.51 for anyone sync'ing
PRIOR to Thu Oct 21 18:14:09 UTC 2004.

An oversight on my part, followed by coincidence, left sandbox
uninstalled on AMD64 with the original portage-2.0.51 ebuilds.
The ebuild has not been bumped, as anyone experiencing the
problem would not be able to update without at least some
fore-knowledge anyway.

If sandbox is not enabled, this will go unnoticed. It appears
that due to profiles and other tree-affects, that sandbox is
disabled on most boxes but the full extent of that default
is not yet known.

UPDATE PORTAGE __AGAIN__ after sync'ing now. The potential
exists for portage to remove installed files without replacing
them with updated files when doing updates. MERGE PORTAGE FIRST
or disable sandbox.

--NJ