I emerged "media-video/helixplayer". Afterward, not finding a command `helixplayer', I searched for "/bin/" and found /opt/HelixPlayer/Bin/setup which I executed. It prompts Welcome to the Helix Player (1.0.1.436) Setup for UNIX Setup will help you get Helix Player running on your computer. Press [Enter] to continue... Enter the complete path to the directory where you want Helix Player to be installed. You must specify the full pathname of the directory and have write privileges to the chosen directory. Directory: [/usr/HelixPlayer]: I chose to give directory /usr/local/bin .. You have selected the following Helix Player configuration: Destination: /usr/local/bin Enter [F]inish to begin copying files, or [P]revious to go back to the previous prompts: [F]: Upon hitting <RET>, the cmd ran for a long time. Copying Helix Player files..................................tar: ./Coop/d/My Documents/Remodeling/tree1.26jul2002.WLK: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: Skipping to next header tar: ./Coop/d/My Documents/Remodeling/ehk28july2003original.PB2: Cannot write: No space left on device ... It apparently starting copying large chunks of my filesystem into "/usr/local/bin", in particular copying large parts of my Windows partition (my system is dual-boot). It eventually produced the above message "No space left on device". [I was able to delete the copied directories, and it appears that no harm was done to my system.] Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 8 2005, 00:24:24)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/X11/app-defaults /etc/X11/gdm /etc/X11/rstart /etc/X11/xdm /etc/gconf /etc/hotplug /etc/sound/events /etc/terminfo /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 acpi alsa apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr clisp composite crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode esd evo f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gssapi gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 irmc java jpeg kde kerberos ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql mythtv ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl opie oss pam pda pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real sasl scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svg svga t1lib tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb wxwindows xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
My report was supposed to start with "This may not be a bug, but rather my mis-understanding the instructions."
I'm not sure as I can't compile helixplayer on amd64, but this shouldn't be a problem, at least with the fix to bug #75554 which puts Helix Player in the menus (both gnome, kde, and what else is following fd.o specs). Maybe a fix could be removing that setup file, as it doesn't seem to be needed for gentoo users, but also dangerous.
helixplayer-1.0.3-r1 removes the dangerous setup script. Thanks for reporting.
