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Bug 14684 - emerge -pf for non-root throws filesystem readonly errors
Summary: emerge -pf for non-root throws filesystem readonly errors
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Nicholas Jones (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2003-01-28 12:32 UTC by AJ Armstrong
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:19 UTC (History)
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Description AJ Armstrong 2003-01-28 12:32:42 UTC 
Behavior should either be an 'only root can do that' error or (preferable to me)
the list of source URLs you get for the same command as root.
Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-01-28 19:12:46 UTC 
Are you root?
Comment 2 AJ Armstrong 2003-01-29 09:14:10 UTC 
"emerge -pf package" works fine for root.  However, when the same command is 
executed by non-root, it throws a bunch of error messags.  My thought is that, 
because it is a "pretend" command, it should work for non-root.  Or, if it is 
decided that the command shouldn't work for non-root, it should gracefully 
exit with a meaningful message (along the lines of 'root access required'.  
Admittedly, a minor point.
Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-02-22 08:52:32 UTC 
Add user to the portage group.
Comment 4 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-02-22 08:53:05 UTC 
Change for 2.0.47 series.