Bugzilla Bug 88648

On a recent portage sync and emerge -pu world, an upgrade to coreutils was
required.  The upgrades adds a new package help2man.

emerge -pv coreutils

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.01-r1  3 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/help2man-1.33.1  +nls 73 kB 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r5 [5.2.1-r2] -acl -build* -debug
+nls* (-selinux) -static (-uclibc) 4,260 kB 

This version of help2man gets a permission denied error when emerging.  A newer
version of help2man (help2man-1.35.1) is available in portage but is ~ppc64. 
Perhaps the easiest thing to do here is unmask the newer version of help2man.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sync
2. emerge -pu world (which includes coreutils)
3.

I wasnt able to replicate this on a different system.  The make profiles do
differ on each.  Should I post them?

yes, please post them.

I cannot reporduce this error either. does the newer version fix that issue for you? That newer version works for me and I would mark it stable if it fixed your problem.

Yes, the newer version of help2man emerged perfectly.  So the newer one imho
could be marked stable.

Here's the make.conf for the failing system:

ARCH="ppc64"

CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"

CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=970 -mcpu=970"
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64"

STAGE1_USE="unicode"
GRP_STAGE23_USE="unicode ipv6 pam tcpd readline nls ssl gpm perl python berkdb
ncurses"

USE="unicode pam berkdb bitmap-fonts gif jpeg nls ncurses perl png ppc64 python
readline ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts zlib"

FEATURES="autoconfig sandbox sfperms"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/"

I don't have any problems using that newer version. Bumped to stable.

P.S.: remoded tgall as he also gets mail from ppc64@g.o (maybe a little bit late..)