Bug 1817

Summary:	Incorrect file/directory permissions after emerge
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Matt Keadle <omega9>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	1.0
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matt Keadle 2002-04-15 20:05:30 UTC

See bug 1778 at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1778 for background 
information.

Without having researched it yet, it looks like  file and directory permission 
are being incorrectly set after an emerge. Experience shows that emerging tetex 
works fine, but is not usable/accessable by the system.

In my personal case, /usr/share/texmf/* was set to chown 501:501 after an 
emerge. I have no user with UID 501.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-04-16 01:33:14 UTC

this could be a bug in the tetex (?) package.

Comment 2 Matt Keadle 2002-04-16 01:48:56 UTC

I don't work with tetex much so i have limited experience with how it should  behave. The only package i'm using to test tetex is t1lib.      Emerging tetex does not produce any errors, and states to run 'texconfig font   rw' at the end of the emerge to allow all users to create fonts. It looks like   this is what t1lib is trying to do, but texconfig grants write permission on   different directories then t1lib is trying to write to. All of t1lib's actions   (as far as tetex is concerned) are taking place againt   /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm. I tried creating this tree by hand, but   that just led t1lib to produce a different set of 'Access Denied' messages   when trying to place files into that dir. Oddly enough I have it chmod 777 and   it still can't write.

Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-04-24 03:39:11 UTC

this is resolved in tetex anyway