283642 – app-portage/g-ctan: insufficient permissions

Bug 283642 - app-portage/g-ctan: insufficient permissions

Summary: app-portage/g-ctan: insufficient permissions

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2009-09-04 09:50 UTC by Nico Schlömer
Modified:	2009-09-07 10:44 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Nico Schlömer 2009-09-04 09:50:11 UTC

hi,

when going like, e.g.,

    g-ctan -c csquotes

-- of course after /etc/make.conf has been configured, the paths have been created and all -- the ebuild could not be created due to

    * You have insufficient permissions.  This program should be run as root in most environments.

needless to say that the thing *is* actually run as root.

cheers,
nico

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-09-07 10:44:13 UTC

You need to create /usr/portage/local or redefine G_OVERLAY_DIR.

g-ctan now checks for the directory for exist, because the code was based on wrong assumptions.  Thank you for your report.