I have my own ebuild repo. Everything works. Except: When enabling apache's AuthType Basic (thus distfile fetch restriction), then emerge hangs after username query and before password query: > emerging (1 of 1) app-admin/my-package-1.0::my-ebuilds > >>> Unpacking source... > * Repository id: repos_distfiles.git > * > * Fetching https://a-server/git/repos/distfiles.git ... > git fetch https://a-server/git/repos/distfiles.git +HEAD:refs/git-r3/HEAD > Username for 'https://a-server': user1 HANGS forever. (Should print: Password for 'https://a-server': ...) Strange... manually, git fetch works: - cd'ing into .../distfiles/git3-src/repos_distfiles.git - git fetch https:// ... as above - Username for ...: - Password for ...: - Done. NOTE: This has been working in the past! I've tried portage up to 2.3.66-r1. Any idea how I could debug what makes portage hang?
Currently, I suppose this is a terminal/interaction thing: While a manuall call of git fetch displays and interacts correctly with the username/password entry, portage calls git and probably does not forward key events. Thus: git fetch would not receive the username and in turn does not continue asking for a password? Hm...
Does it help if you set PROPERTIES="interactive" in the ebuild? You should do that if it requires user input.
(In reply to Zac Medico from comment #2) > Does it help if you set PROPERTIES="interactive" in the ebuild? You should > do that if it requires user input. Thanks a lot, it doesn't help though. I suppose because interaction is required *earlier*, while fetching the distfiles... I hope there is a similar flag or so?
Regular distfiles can't be fetched interactively, you'd have to use RESTRICT="fetch" instead. The output shown in comment #0 is for a git repository, which would typically be fetched in src_unpack by the git-r3_src_unpack function.
You can try with FEATURES="-network-sandbox -ipc-sandbox -pid-sandbox" to see if that has any effect.
(In reply to Zac Medico from comment #5) > You can try with FEATURES="-network-sandbox -ipc-sandbox -pid-sandbox" to > see if that has any effect. Awesom, man. Sooo glad I works again...! Thanks for your help!! FEATURES="-pid-sandbox" emerge my-ebuild This one is sufficiant to make password interaction work again when downloading from a user/password restricted distfile fetch via git. Since it worked previously without FEATURES, I assume that the reason for this silent change might be some new kernel options, namely PID and mount namespace support mentioned in man make.conf, to be required for pid-sandbox'ing. So, maybe pid-sandbox'ing was previously unavailable, so it went though. In case there is a better Gentoo way to make username/password restricted distfile fetching possible I'll happy for any pointers. I haven't found anything more convenient though than the Apache AuthType way (see my OP) as there is no *separate* fetch required. It's just plain emerge, with username/password entry.
