[ Results for search key : [01mfoo[0m ] [ Applications found : [01m1[0m ] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1171, in ? searchinstance.output() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 148, in output full_package = string.strip(self.treecache.dep_bestmatch(match)) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2260, in dep_bestmatch mymatch=best(gvisible(visible(match(mydep,self.dbapi)))) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2222, in gvisible myaux=db["/"]["porttree"].dbapi.aux_get(mycpv, ["KEYWORDS"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2545, in aux_get doebuild(myebuild,"depend","/") File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1044, in doebuild os.makedirs(settings["BUILDDIR"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/os.py", line 203, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/tmp/portage/foobillard-1.5' The older portage versions gave you a cleaner message to state that you didn't have access...
Fixed in 2.0.6+