The file permissions on the directory /var/lib/portage in both the stage3-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2 and stage3-x86-2006.0.tar.bz2 are set to 750 with owner and group root. This prevents all users, and more importantly members of the portage group from reading the world file, which can cause the output of emerge -vpuDN world to vary greatly if run as a user or as root. I hope i didn't screw up the octal permissions. They are drwxr-x--- Both of these stage3 tarballs were downloaded from gentoo.mirrored.ca but the creation date of these files is the same on several other mirrors so i would guess the problem exists elsewhere. I believe the permissions should be drwxrws---
The x86 team doesn't have anything to do with this. Also, as an aside, we don't set the permissions on that directory in any way. It is done 100% through portage, meaning that it is very likely that the portage ebuild is doing something wrong in this case. I will investigate more and reassign this as appropriate.
It isn't the portage ebuild. It's portage itself: if not os.path.exists(root+"var/lib/portage"): writemsg(">>> "+root+"var/lib/portage doesn't exist, creating it...\n") try: os.mkdir(root+"var",0755) except (OSError,IOError): pass try: os.mkdir(root+"var/lib",0755) except (OSError,IOError): pass try: os.mkdir(root+"var/lib/portage",02750) except SystemExit, e: raise except: writemsg("portage: couldn't create /var/lib/portage; exiting.\n") sys.exit(1) I recently had to add code similar to this to the installer for creating the dynamic-stage3, since it doesn't call portage directly.
Was this ever modified/fixed/whatever? We're using 2.1-r2 for 2006.1's release.
From stage3-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2: drwxr-s--- 2 root portage 4096 Aug 3 10:39 var/lib/portage It's not the same as what's in the 2006.0 tarball as reported above, but it's also not the same as on my installed system: drwxrws--- 2 root portage 4096 Aug 22 15:31 /var/lib/portage
Which portage version is your system, though? Anyway... this looks like it is fixed in the newer portage and will be fixed for the release, so I'll close it once the release hits the mirrors.
Release has hit the mirrors... FIXED.
