Bug 338522 – Unable to merge =sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616 on prefix (multiple errors)

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description Dan Wallis 2010-09-24 05:08:06 UTC]

First time around, get this error:

[...]
../subst-install \
		-o "dan" -g "dan" \
		"."/make.conf "/home/dan/.gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616/image//home/dan/.gentoo/usr/share/portage/config"/make.conf.example
/home/dan/.gentoo/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 -o dan -g dan ./make.conf /home/dan/.gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616/image//home/dan/.gentoo/usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example
/home/dan/.gentoo/usr/bin/install -c -d -m 755 -o "dan" -g "dan" /home/dan/.gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616/image//home/dan/.gentoo/etc
../subst-install \
		-o "dan" -g "dan" \
		-t "/home/dan/.gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616/image//home/dan/.gentoo/etc" \
		"."/dispatch-conf.conf \
		"."/etc-update.conf
/home/dan/.gentoo/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 -o dan -g dan -t /home/dan/.gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616/image//home/dan/.gentoo/etc ./dispatch-conf.conf ./etc-update.conf
( cd /home/dan/.gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616/image//home/dan/.gentoo/etc && ln -s /home/dan/.gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616/image//home/dan/.gentoo/usr/share/portage/config/make.globals )
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/.gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616/work/prefix-portage-2.2.01.16616/cnf'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dan/.gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616/work/prefix-portage-2.2.01.16616'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dan/.gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616/work/prefix-portage-2.2.01.16616'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/.gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616/work/prefix-portage-2.2.01.16616'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/.gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616/work/prefix-portage-2.2.01.16616'
>>> Completed installing portage-2.2.01.16616 into /home/dan/.gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616/image/home/dan/.gentoo/

strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded -R .comment
   usr/lib/portage/bin/chpathtool
ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 /home/dan/.gentoo/usr/share/man

>>> Installing (1 of 2) sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616
Permission denied: 'makedirs('/var/lib/portage')'
[back to prompt, return code not captured, sorry.]


Then subsequent emerge attempts fails due to collision of:
$EPREFIX/usr/share/doc/portage-2.2.01.16616/RELEASE-NOTES.bz2
$EPREFIX/usr/share/doc/portage-2.2.01.16616/NEWS.bz2


Happy to provide more details as requested, but won't be back at this machine until Monday (NZST).

[Comment 1 Fabian Groffen 2010-09-24 06:41:58 UTC]

what's your current portage version, 16610 by chance?

[Comment 2 Fabian Groffen 2010-09-24 06:48:04 UTC]

Created attachment 248495 [details, diff]
hg changeset to fix mkdir /var/lib/portage bug

if you are on 16610, then apply the attached patch to ${EPREFIX}/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py

[Comment 3 Dan Wallis 2010-09-26 23:48:16 UTC]

Yes, I was on sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16610, and am now on sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.16616 following recommendations from #gentoo-prefix to just ignore and merge anyway. I removed the two conflicts, ran another emerge, and all is well.

Marking this as closed, but feel free to reopen if necessary.