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Bug 177385 - Make eclean-dist test if permission are enough instead of requiring to be root
Summary: Make eclean-dist test if permission are enough instead of requiring to be root
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Tools (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage Tools Team
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Keywords: InVCS
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Blocks: 170220
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Reported: 2007-05-06 23:04 UTC by Petteri Räty (RETIRED)
Modified: 2007-07-27 21:39 UTC (History)
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Description Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-06 23:04:30 UTC 
betelgeuse@pena /var/distfiles $ eclean-dist -i
 * Permission denied: you must be root.

My user has write permission to my DISTDIR so there is no need to require me to be root. It worked just fine when I removed the check.
Comment 1 Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-11 05:40:51 UTC 
$ svn commit -m "Changed permission check to see if you are either root or belong to the portage group (Bug #177385)"
Sending        ChangeLog
Sending        src/eclean/eclean
Transmitting file data ..
Committed revision 401.
Comment 2 Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-27 21:39:52 UTC 
Released in gentoolkit-0.2.4_pre6