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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage overlay question
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:13:57
Message-Id: 43BC2B76.70708@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage overlay question by "Paweł Madej"
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4 Paweł Madej wrote:
5 | Zac Medico wrote:
6 |>> You should have done `ls -ld /usr/portage/distfiles/.locks`.
7 |>>
8 |>> I'm able to reproduce that problem here. It seems that portage
9 |>> automatically changes the group id on ${DISTDIR} (when run as root) but
10 |>> it neglects to change the group id on ${DISTDIR}/.locks (I'd consider it
11 |>> a bug). If you do `chgrp portage /usr/portage/distfiles/.locks && chmod
12 |>> g+w /usr/portage/distfiles/.locks` then that should allow you to work
13 |>> around the problem.
14 |>>
15 |>> Zac
16 |
17 | Thank you very much Zac. That resolved a problem. I think if I should
18 | file a bug about this?
19 |
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21 Yeah, I think should. The version of portage that I'm using (2.1_pre3) will create the directory with the correct gid (if the directory does not exist). However, after the directory has been created, portage does not ensure that .locks continues to have the correct gid.
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23 Zac
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