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From: Grobian <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-osx@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] Attempt to use prefix on linux as secondary...
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:28:26
Message-Id: 20051217142753.GF14948@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-osx] Attempt to use prefix on linux as secondary... by Grobian
1 On 17-12-2005 14:49:40 +0100, Grobian wrote:
2 > > (pegasus:~/scratch/programs/gentoo) fabian% usr/bin/emerge info
3 > > portage: 'portage' user or group missing. Please update baselayout
4 > > and merge portage user(250) and group(250) into your passwd
5 > > and group files. Non-root compilation is disabled until then.
6 > > Also note that non-root/wheel users will need to be added to
7 > > the portage group to do portage commands.
8 > >
9 > > For the defaults, line 1 goes into passwd, and 2 into group.
10 > > portage:x:250:250:portage:/var/tmp/portage:/bin/false
11 > > portage::250:portage
12 >
13 > Ok, I had hoped these numbers would have been set to my user and group
14 > IDs by the configure call. Apparently not. Or it is something else I
15 > did wrong here. There's no way for me on this system to create or
16 > modify users.
17
18 Update:
19 I 'fixed' this by changing portage_data.py. Instead of the hardcoded
20 wheel user and group, I just substituted them with my own names. So far
21 so good. Now what's left is to start adding packages to the overlay
22 tree with EAPI="prefix", I suppose.
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