Bug 142202

Summary:	emerge-webrsync does not work for non-root user
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	SpanKY <vapier>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	431026

Description SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-07-30 10:56:08 UTC

permissions are not set/checked properly ... the dir /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync/ is created without having any permissions forced ... plus if the dir is like root:root 755, running emerge-webrsync as a non-root portage group user does not give any sort of user error ... just lines of "Not yet available." errors when in reality, the problem is the dir is not writable

after that, trying to do metadata updates falls all over itself

if this shouldnt be run as non-root, then the script should have a check that barfs if you try to run it as non-root :)

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-08-15 02:01:29 UTC

This is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=a343db38d0e4da0126c33d305386b187a6f00205

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-08-22 23:45:06 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.11.11 and 2.2.0_alpha122.