Memtest86+ ebuild attempts to create links on /boot. Links are not supported on FAT32/vfat so the install fails. * Your boot partition was detected as being mounted at /boot. * Files will be installed there for memtest86+ to function correctly. !!! failed to properly create symlink: !!! /boot/memtest86plus/memtest.bin -> memtest !!! [Errno 1] Operation not permitted !!! Failed to move file. !!! /boot/memtest86plus/memtest.bin -> memtest * Your boot partition was detected as being mounted at /boot. * Files will be installed there for memtest86+ to function correctly. !!! failed to properly create symlink: !!! /boot/memtest86plus/memtest.bin -> memtest !!! [Errno 1] Operation not permitted !!! Failed to move file. !!! /boot/memtest86plus/memtest.bin -> memtest app-emulation/xen has the same issue but that can be worked around with a USE=efi. See Bug 496706. Unfortunately, there is no such use flag for memtest86+.
Same issue. My error message is >>> Merging sys-apps/memtest86+-5.01-r4 to / * Your boot partition was detected as being mounted at /boot. * Files will be installed there for memtest86+ to function correctly. --- /boot/ --- /boot/memtest86plus/ !!! copy /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/memtest86+-5.01-r4/image/boot/memtest86plus/memtest -> /boot/memtest86plus/memtest failed. !!! [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: b'/boot/memtest86plus/memtest#new'
Are you still able to reproduce this? I'm not. I don't see any symlinks being installed at all. FYI if you are using UEFI, this memtest doesn't work on UEFI, but sys-apps/memtest86-bin does.
The ebuilds which call "dosym" are gone now, so comment 1 must be about a different issue. What you are seeing is an "operation not permitted" when trying to chown on fat32. I can reproduce THAT if I mangle permissions on purpose (like running up through install phase as user "ben" then trying merge phase as root).
