darkstar ~ # emerge sys-apps/debianutils Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/debianutils-2.15 to / Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3386, in ? mydepgraph.merge(pkglist) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2022, in merge retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,tree="porttree") File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2787, in doebuild if portage_util.ensure_dirs(mydir, gid=portage_gid, mode=dirmode, mask=modemask): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 707, in ensure_dirs perms_modified = apply_permissions(dir_path, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 512, in apply_permissions os.chmod(filename, new_mode) OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/usr/portage/distfiles/' pre7-r2 work's fine
Thanks for reporting. This is fixed in svn r3063 and released in 2.1_pre7-r4.