app-misc/mc internal ftp client does not honor .netrc unless net-ft/ftp is installed. The error is silent, I discovered it trying to debug my .netrc with a simpler ftp client. It's my opinion that a dependency should be added, or at least a message in pkg_postinst(). Reproducible: Always emerge --info Portage 2.2.13 (python 3.4.1-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.16.3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.16.3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-3337U_CPU_@_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 3940040 total, 1777232 free KiB Swap: 4194300 total, 4194300 free Timestamp of tree: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:45:01 +0000 ld ld di GNU (GNU Binutils) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p47 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.8, 3.4.1 dev-util/cmake: 3.0.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.13.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.13.4, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2-r1 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.16 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19-r1 Repositories: gentoo tox-overlay science kernelpanic ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA @EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/tomoyo/conf /usr/share/config /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/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy cgroup clean-logs compress-build-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync network-sandbox news parallel-fetch parallel-install preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms split-elog split-log strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" 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CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
I'm afraid i can't find how app-misc/mc is expected to find presence of net-ftp/ftp (it's only 3 files, 2 of them are man pages). It does very dumb thing: https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/blob/master/src/vfs/ftpfs/ftpfs.c#L2400 Does deinstaling net-ftp/ftp makes problem reappear for you?
(In reply to Sergei Trofimovich from comment #1) > I'm afraid i can't find how app-misc/mc is expected to find > presence of net-ftp/ftp (it's only 3 files, 2 of them are man pages). > > It does very dumb thing: > > https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/blob/master/src/vfs/ftpfs/ftpfs. > c#L2400 > > Does deinstaling net-ftp/ftp makes problem reappear for you? ... and now I feel really stupid. I had this problem on three different systems, and the problem disappeared after installing ftp (no changes to .netrc file). Hence the bug filing. Removing net-ftp/ftp does not make the problem reappear. I'm sorry for the time you lost searching for this bug. And, of course, thank you.
Oh, it's OK, don't worry. Just make sure it's not some dumb error, like mc ran under sudo or .netrc created with another user. Please, reopen this bug if you'll find a culprit in mc.
