I get something like (ebuild currently not in portage): >>> Unpacking inventor-2.1.5-10.src.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/openinventor-2.1.5.10/work * Applying use-byacc.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying no-csh.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying gentoo-paths.patch ... cat: /usr/portage/media-gfx/openinventor/files/gentoo-paths.patch: Permission denied [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. etc. when I would expect epatch to die, just as it would when it's unable to find the patch or to apply it cleanly. This doesn't without FEATURES="userpriv" for obvious reasons. sderoeck@olympia /usr/portage/media-gfx/openinventor $ ls files/ -l -rw-r----- 1 sderoeck visics 10582 Sep 15 11:56 gentoo-paths.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 sderoeck visics 1053 Sep 14 21:31 no-csh.patch ... emerge info: Portage 2.0.52-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.13-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo i686 unknown Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig cvs digest distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en_US de en_GB fr nl zh_CN zh_TW" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="cvs://stefaan@cvs.gentoo.org:/var/cvsroot" USE="x86 X afs alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cjk crypt cups curl eds emboss encode esd f77 fam flac fltk foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kerberos libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nis nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xine xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_en_US linguas_de linguas_en_GB linguas_fr linguas_nl linguas_zh_CN linguas_zh_TW userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Yes, I was bitten by this minor annoyance while testing more than once, too.
Created attachment 70528 [details, diff] eutils-pipe-assert.patch this should fix it
assuming proposed fix works
