I have to manually run `${EPREFIX}/gentoo/var/cache/eix/` to get eix working on my prefix system. Elsewise I get: hioanas@servetus ~ $ eix-update Reading Portage settings... Building database (/home/hioanas/gentoo/var/cache/eix/portage.eix)... [0] "gentoo" /home/hioanas/gentoo/usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-md5-or-flat) Reading category 165|165 (100) Finished [1] "science" /home/hioanas/gentoo/var/lib/overlays/science (cache: parse|ebuild*#metadata-md5#metadata-flat#assign) Reading category 165|165 (100) Finished Applying masks... Calculating hash tables... Writing database file /home/hioanas/gentoo/var/cache/eix/portage.eix... cannot open database file /home/hioanas/gentoo/var/cache/eix/portage.eix for writing (mode = 'wb') hioanas@servetus ~ $ ls -lah /home/hioanas/gentoo/var/cache/eix/portage.eix ls: cannot access '/home/hioanas/gentoo/var/cache/eix/portage.eix': No such file or directory hioanas@servetus ~ $ ls -lah /home/hioanas/gentoo/var/cache/eix ls: cannot access '/home/hioanas/gentoo/var/cache/eix': No such file or directory hioanas@servetus ~ $ ls -lah /home/hioanas/gentoo/var/cache total 12K drwxr-xr-x 3 hioanas hioanas 4.0K Jan 10 16:39 . drwxrwxr-x 9 hioanas hioanas 4.0K Jan 10 21:41 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 hioanas hioanas 4.0K Jan 11 09:11 edb
I have met the same bug. Is this problem Prefix specific?
Hi OpenRC Team, Here is an example of tmpfiles.d/eix.conf: d EPREFIX/var/cache/eix 0775 portage portage - It fails at the `chown` step if no root privilege is granted, such as on normal user Prefix: $ tmpfiles --create eix.conf chown: invalid user: 'portage' chgrp: invalid group: 'portage' As a result, EPREFIX/var/cache/eix is not created during emerge. I can think of 2 ways to solve this bug: 1. In the tmpfiles.eclass, chop off the extra user/group setting from eix.conf during `dotmpfiles()` if without root privilege. 2. In opentmpfiles, allow the chown setup to fail if without root privilege. Which one is recommended? Yours, Benda
can't we pull the portage user/group from Portage in the ebuild and hardcode it in the installed tmpfile conf?
(In reply to Fabian Groffen from comment #3) > can't we pull the portage user/group from Portage in the ebuild and hardcode > it in the installed tmpfile conf? I think that's at least a solution.
opentmpfiles is no longer an option
