when I try to upgrade fcron, it dies with a message saying I need to set $EDITOR. This is a problem because I do in fact have $EDITOR set to /usr/bin/emacs in /etc/rc.conf. (and I've verified the setting in my environment) I think this might have something to do with environment whitelisting. I haven't tried putting EDITOR in make.conf yet, though that would be a less-than-optimal workaround anyway. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge fcron Actual Results: emerge dies with error about $EDITOR Expected Results: emerge completes successfully, using $EDITOR from environment or /etc/rc.conf electronerd@sheila /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-gentoo $ sudo emerge fcron Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-process/fcron-3.0.0 to / >>> md5 files ;-) fcron-2.0.2.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) fcron-2.9.5.1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) fcron-2.9.7.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) fcron-3.0.0.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) files/fcron.rc6 >>> md5 files ;-) files/crontab >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-fcron-2.0.2 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-fcron-2.9.5.1 >>> md5 files ;-) files/fcron-2.0.0-configure.diff >>> md5 files ;-) files/fcron-2.9.5.1-fix-mail-output.diff >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-fcron-2.9.7 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-fcron-3.0.0 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) fcron-3.0.0.src.tar.gz * Attempting to deduce absolute path of !!! ERROR: sys-process/fcron-3.0.0 failed. !!! Function pkg_setup, Line 28, Exitcode 1 !!! Please set the EDITOR env variable to the path of a valid executable. !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. electronerd@sheila /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-gentoo $ electronerd@sheila /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-gentoo $ echo $EDITOR /usr/bin/emacs Portage 2.0.53_rc4 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 distcc[10639] (dcc_set_trace_from_env) ERROR: failed to open logfile /var/log/distcc: Permission denied [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.91.0.3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /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/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://sarge.electronerdia.net/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa ared aredmem arts artworkextra audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bl bonobo bzip2 bzlib cairo caps cddb cdparanoia cdr clanJavaScript clanVoice cli crypt css cups curl curlwrappers dba dbm dga directfb doc dpms dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dynagraph ecc edl eds elf emacs emboss encode erandom esd ethereal exif expat fam fame fbcon ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb fpx ftp gcj gd gdbm ggi gif glibc-omitfp glitz glut gnome gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl icq ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib inifile insecure-savers ipv6 jabber jack jack-tmpfs java javascript jikes joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal kerberos ladcca lcms ldap libcaca libwww lirc lm_sensors lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir makecheck matroska mikmod mime mjpeg mng motif mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg musepack musicbrainz mysql mythtv nas ncurses net network no-old-linux nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis ooo-kde openal openexr opengl oscar pam pcntl pcre pdflib pear perl php physfs pic plotutils png posix povray ppds python qt quicktime quotes readline real rpm rrdtool samba sasl sblive sdk sdl sensord session slang smux sndfile snmp soap sockets softmmu speex spell spl sql ssl stencil-buffer subversion svg sysfs sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora tidy tiff tokenizer transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 videos visualization vorbis wmf wmv wxwindows xanim xface xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xsl xv xvid xvmc yahoo yv12 zeroconf zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
This has nothing to do with portage. sudo is what is clearing EDITOR from the env.
(In reply to comment #1) > This has nothing to do with portage. sudo is what is clearing EDITOR from the > env. Oops. Sorry about that. I forgot sudo clears $EDITOR. Does that make this bug INVALID?
Created attachment 70392 [details, diff] patch to sys-process/fcron-3.0.0 here's a patch to the fcron ebuild making the relationship between sudo and unset EDITOR more clear
Marking invalid but am patching the ebuild with John's patch. Thanks John.
