I had to use ebuild to build the digest and Manifest. No big deal, just a nit. The real problem happened at emerge gdal: make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gdal-1.2.1/work/gdal-1.2.1/man' ../install-sh -d /usr/share/man/man1 for f in man1/gdal-config.1 man1/gdal_translate.1 man1/gdaladdo.1 man1/gdalinfo.1 man1/gdaltindex.1 man1/gdalwarp.1 man1/ogr2ogr.1 man1/ogrinfo.1 man1/ogrtindex.1 ; do ../install-sh -c -m 0644 $f /usr/share/man/man1 ; done ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24388# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24388#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24395# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24395#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24402# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24402#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24409# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24409#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24416# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24416#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24423# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24423#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24430# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24430#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24437# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24437#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24444# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24444#': Permission denied make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gdal-1.2.1/work/gdal-1.2.1/man' make: *** [install-actions] Error 2 !!! ERROR: dev-libs/gdal-1.2.1 failed. !!! Function einstall, Line 385, Exitcode 2 !!! einstall failed --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --------------------------- LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-dev-libs_-_gdal-1.2.1-23373.log" open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24388# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24395# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24402# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24409# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24416# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24423# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24430# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24437# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24444# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- firefly portage # Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gdal Actual Results: make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gdal-1.2.1/work/gdal-1.2.1/man' ../install-sh -d /usr/share/man/man1 for f in man1/gdal-config.1 man1/gdal_translate.1 man1/gdaladdo.1 man1/gdalinfo.1 man1/gdaltindex.1 man1/gdalwarp.1 man1/ogr2ogr.1 man1/ogrinfo.1 man1/ogrtindex.1 ; do ../install-sh -c -m 0644 $f /usr/share/man/man1 ; done ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24388# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24388#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24395# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24395#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24402# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24402#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24409# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24409#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24416# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24416#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24423# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24423#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24430# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24430#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24437# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24437#': Permission denied ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24444# cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24444#': Permission denied make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gdal-1.2.1/work/gdal-1.2.1/man' make: *** [install-actions] Error 2 !!! ERROR: dev-libs/gdal-1.2.1 failed. !!! Function einstall, Line 385, Exitcode 2 !!! einstall failed --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --------------------------- LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-dev-libs_-_gdal-1.2.1-23373.log" open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24388# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24395# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24402# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24409# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24416# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24423# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24430# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24437# open_wr: /usr/share/man/man1/#inst.24444# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- firefly portage # Expected Results: I believe it should have installed the man pages. I have noticed that even though I obtained gdal using emerge, it is no longer listed in the online package database. - - - firefly gdal-1.2.1 # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r1, 2.6.7-gentoo-r13) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r13 i686 AMD Duron(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.5.2 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups directfb encode esd f2c f77 foomatic foomaticdb gcj gdbm gif gimp-print gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib" firefly gdal-1.2.1 #
gdal is not in portage as far as I could tell.