Attempting to emerge libwww results in the following errors:
>>> Install libwww-perl-5.64 into /var/tmp/portage/libwww-perl-5.64/image/
category dev-perl
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/LWP.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/LWP.pm
ACCESS DENIED chmod: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/LWP.pm
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/lwpcook.pod
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/lwpcook.pod
ACCESS DENIED chmod: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/lwpcook.pod
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/HTTP.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/HTTP.pm
ACCESS DENIED chmod: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/HTTP.pm
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/HTTPS.pm
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/HTTPS.pm
ACCESS DENIED chmod: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/HTTPS.pm
ACCESS DENIED mkdir: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/HTTP
mkdir /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/HTTP: Permission denied at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 137
make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255
!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function perl-module_src_install, Line -656, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
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LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-libwww-perl-5.64-21203.log"
open_wr: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/LWP.pm
chmod: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/LWP.pm
open_wr: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/lwpcook.pod
chmod: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/lwpcook.pod
open_wr: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/HTTP.pm
chmod: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/HTTP.pm
open_wr: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/HTTPS.pm
chmod: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/HTTPS.pm
mkdir: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/HTTP
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Searching, there is also a related bug (7816) but the user appears to be using
Gentoo 1.3. This is a 1.2 report.
Paul,
Please emerge rsync and try again. I've corrected the perl Makefile line in
the ebuild to conform to what the new MakeMaker is expecting. My apologies for
the inconvenience. The new version of libwww is the same as the current one
since this was an in place fix that only affected fresh installs (no need to
force all users to re-emerge if they don't have to).