I have failed to upgrade qhull to the latest version. This is probably due to the use of ${ROOT} in ebuild. Error is: * ERROR: media-libs/qhull-2012.1-r3::gentoo_prefix failed (preinst phase): * (no error message) * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 93: Called __call-ebuildshell 'pkg_preinst' * environment, line 214: Called pkg_preinst * environment, line 2451: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * rm -rf "${ROOT}"usr/include/qhull || die Resulting in rm: cannot remove ‘/usr/include/qhull/io.h’: Permission denied rm: cannot remove ‘/usr/include/qhull/merge.h’: Permission denied rm: cannot remove ‘/usr/include/qhull/user.h’: Permission denied rm: cannot remove ‘/usr/include/qhull/poly.h’: Permission denied rm: cannot remove ‘/usr/include/qhull/qset.h’: Permission denied rm: cannot remove ‘/usr/include/qhull/mem.h’: Permission denied rm: cannot remove ‘/usr/include/qhull/qhull.h’: Permission denied rm: cannot remove ‘/usr/include/qhull/qhull_a.h’: Permission denied rm: cannot remove ‘/usr/include/qhull/geom.h’: Permission denied rm: cannot remove ‘/usr/include/qhull/stat.h’: Permission denied
emerge --info '=media-libs/qhull-2012.1-r3::gentoo_prefix' Portage 2.2.10.1-prefix (python 2.7.6-final-0, prefix/linux/amd64, gcc-4.7.3, unavailable, 2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.centos.plus.x86_64 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.centos.plus.x86_64-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5-2630L_0_@_2.00GHz-with-centos-6.5-Final KiB Mem: 65943188 total, 23059864 free KiB Swap: 67108856 total, 67105036 free Timestamp of tree: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 06:09:15 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.6-r1 dev-util/cmake: 3.0.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.14 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8-r00.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2-r1 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.16 (virtual/os-headers) Repositories: gentoo_prefix science ioc-science ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64-linux" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -O2 -pipe -march=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -O2 -pipe -march=native" DISTDIR="/share/envs/ioc/sysbio/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles force-prefix merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j16" PKGDIR="/share/envs/ioc/sysbio/gentoo/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/share/envs/ioc/sysbio/gentoo/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/share/envs/ioc/sysbio/gentoo/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/share/envs/ioc/sysbio/gentoo/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/share/envs/ioc/sysbio/gentoo/var/lib/layman/science /share/envs/ioc/sysbio/gentoo/var/lib/layman/ioc-sysbio" USE="X amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm iconv ipv6 mmx modules ncurses nls nptl openmp pcre prefix readline session sse sse2 ssl tcpd unicode zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USE_PYTHON="2.7" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC
emerge -pqv '=media-libs/qhull-2012.1-r3::gentoo_prefix' [ebuild U ] media-libs/qhull-2012.1-r3 [2012.1-r1] USE="-doc -static-libs"
It needs a small change to work. 37c37 < rm -rf "${ROOT}"usr/include/qhull || die --- > rm -rf "${EPREFIX}"usr/include/qhull || die
thanks, fixed