I accidentally ran emerge-delta-webrsync as a normal user today, and it pretended to do something: # emerge-delta-webrsync Looking for available base versions for a delta found a stale snapshot. cleansing ...and stayed at that point forever. The correct behavior would be to report that the program has to be run as root and exit.
Created attachment 117261 [details, diff] possible patch The user check could probably be performed at a more suitable position in the code, but I don't have enough knowledge of it.
Created attachment 321266 [details, diff] Handle FEATURES=usersync (In reply to comment #1) > Created attachment 117261 [details, diff] [details, diff] > possible patch > > The user check could probably be performed at a more suitable position in > the code, but I don't have enough knowledge of it. I don't want to disable running it as non-root, since it's valid to run as non-root with FEAUTURE=usersync if we apply the attached patch. The reason it stalled for you is that rm went into interactive mode while its prompt was redirected to /dev/null. We can fix that by using rm -f (I'll attach a patch for that).
Created attachment 321268 [details, diff] Check write permission for PORTDIR and DISTDIR These permission checks should make it bail out earlier, so you won't trigger the interactive rm call. I'll add in the rm -f option later.
(In reply to comment #2) > Created attachment 321266 [details, diff] [details, diff] > Handle FEATURES=usersync In git: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=87a769bdab8e54c68260996026c87d3d7845d2e6 (In reply to comment #3) > Created attachment 321268 [details, diff] [details, diff] > Check write permission for PORTDIR and DISTDIR Also in git: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=9807b6646b8f9ce6d67b03cddfe4b9d0b02288bf
Use rm -f for non-interactive: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=a695533917d969d66210ce8e2fe8aa88bee42dc7
This is fixed in version 3.6.
