Bug 253023 – =app-admin/eselect-news-20080320 creates news-${repo} files with wrong group

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Fab 2008-12-29 17:42:21 UTC]

Hi,

I'm currently testing the news feature using eselect-news with the sample news
item from bug #251810.

The news-gentoo.read file is created by the eselect news module
with wrong permissions. GLEP 42 say :

> All news item related files should be root owned and in the
> portage group with the group write (and, for directories, execute)
> bits set.

When running as non-root, the eselect news module should maybe die if some
required files doesn't exist, and ask the user to run it with root privileges
to create the missing files with correct permissions.

Please run the following commands to see the problem. Thanks.


# cd /var/lib/gentoo/news/
# rm news*
# eselect news list
Unread news items:
  (none found)              
Read news items:
  (none found)              


(workaround for bug #252995, can't use --pretend to regenerate
news-gentoo.skip and news-gentoo.unread)
# emerge -1 eselect-news

 * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news to read news items.

Calculating dependencies... done!

[...]
[...] (cut emerge output)
[...]

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.

 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

 * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news to read news items.


# eselect news list
Unread news items:
  2008-12-20-portage-2.1.6  Changes for Portage 2.1.6
Read news items:
  (none found)              


# eselect news read new
2008-12-20-portage-2.1.6
  Title                      Changes for Portage 2.1.6
  Author                     Zac Medico <[e-mail]>
  Posted                     2008-12-20
  Revision                   1

Portage 2.1.6 supports GLEP 42 news items. For more information,
see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0042.html.


# ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    25 déc 29 17:34 news-gentoo.read
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 25 déc 29 17:30 news-gentoo.skip
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage  0 déc 29 17:34 news-gentoo.unread


Unread it as root :
# eselect news unread 2008-12-20-portage-2.1.6
# logout


Using eselect news with my regular user who is in the portage group :
$ eselect news list
Unread news items:
  2008-12-20-portage-2.1.6  Changes for Portage 2.1.6
Read news items:
  (none found)              


$ LC_ALL=C eselect news read new
2008-12-20-portage-2.1.6
  Title                      Changes for Portage 2.1.6
  Author                     Zac Medico <[e-mail]>
  Posted                     2008-12-20
  Revision                   1

Portage 2.1.6 supports GLEP 42 news items. For more information,
see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0042.html.
touch: cannot touch `/var/lib/gentoo/news/news-gentoo.read': Permission denied
!!! Error: Couldn't touch read file for 2008-12-20-portage-2.1.6::gentoo


--> failed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r8-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.40GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:45:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.6-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.3.0-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -ggdb"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/data/distpack/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y"
FEATURES="buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/"
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/data/distpack/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/var/gentrees/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/gentrees/layman/gnome /var/gentrees/overlay-perso"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acl acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imlib isdnlog java jpeg libnotify logrotate mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Fab 2008-12-29 17:44:00 UTC]

CC'ing maintainer.

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2008-12-31 20:27:25 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> CC'ing maintainer.

Don't CC maintainers when you cannot assign bugs.

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2009-08-14 08:21:05 UTC]

Is this still an issue with "eselect news-tng" of eselect-1.1*?

[Comment 4 Fab 2009-08-14 09:31:34 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Is this still an issue with "eselect news-tng" of eselect-1.1*?
> 

No, it works fine with it, thanks.

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2009-10-12 08:29:31 UTC]

eselect-news is going away (see bug 288560), so nothing to fix here.