Gentoo Archives: gentoo-proxy-maint

From: Joonas Niilola <juippis@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-proxy-maint@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-proxy-maint] Repoman: Need user access
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 13:32:24
Message-Id: 1bd0f147-d20b-2dd2-e513-49e970e0dc3d@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-proxy-maint] Repoman: Need user access by Vieri
1 On 12/12/18 10:42 AM, Vieri wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I'm unable to understand why repoman complains about "user access". I
5 > am runing it as non-root, but I don't know why it can't fetch
6 > metadata.xsd.
7 >
8 >
9 > Repoman: Need user access
10 >
11 > I have a gentoo git clone in my user's home dir, a custom overlay, and
12 > the main protage tree. No metadat.xsd file to be found anywhere except:
13 >
14 > # find /usr/portage/ -name "metadata.xsd"
15 > /usr/portage/distfiles/metadata.xsd
16 > /usr/portage/metadata/xml-schema/metadata.xsd
17 >
18 > I don't know what this file is for, but I wish repoman could be a bit
19 > more verbose.
20 >
21 >
22
23 Make sure your user is in 'portage' group, and make sure your portage
24 group has write access to your portage's DISTDIR. Looks to me like
25 something isn't set up correctly.
26
27
28 repoman uses your global make.conf for few things, not sure if you can
29 make user-defined settings.

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Re: [gentoo-proxy-maint] Repoman: Need user access Sarah White <kuzetsa@×××××.com>