Bug 23840 – output is too wordy when running emerge sync as normal user

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description David Grant 2003-07-01 17:35:57 UTC]

The first small this is that if I run "emerge sync" as a normal user I get:

david@sidicpc21 david $ emerge sync
myaction sync
myopts []
emerge: root access required.

It really should just return "emerge: root access required".  I think the "my
action sync\nmyopts []" is unecessary.  Very small complaint indeed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Michael Ihde 2003-07-28 19:12:07 UTC]

On a similar note, when running emerge sync as a regular user you get the message

*** Please add this user to the portage group if you wish to use portage.

However a user probably would not be able to add themselves to the portage group.  Perhaps it should read

*** Please ask the system administrator to add you to the portage group if you wish to use portage.

 

[Comment 2 David Grant 2003-10-21 12:36:00 UTC]

Can we get this bug finished up?  It shouldn't be too difficult.

[Comment 3 David Grant 2004-01-06 16:09:48 UTC]

Created attachment 23269 [details, diff]
patch to fix this bug

[Comment 4 Masatomo Nakano (RETIRED) 2004-01-19 17:56:46 UTC]

Fixed in CVS

[Comment 5 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-02-08 17:55:06 UTC]

supposed to be fixed in 2.0.50 which is stable now. If this bug is not fixed please reopen.