i just emerged lincvs-1.3.2. Unfortunately the file permissions of the files located under /usr/share/LinCVS are wrong: chr@alpha /usr/share/LinCVS $ find -ls 1501442 4 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 2 08:58 . 838810 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95 May 2 08:58 ./AppRun 838811 8 -r--r----- 1 root root 4793 May 2 08:58 ./AppIcon.xpm 838812 4 -r--r----- 1 root root 754 May 2 08:58 ./AppInfo.xml 1501443 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 2 08:58 ./Messages 849477 4 -r--r----- 1 root root 260 May 2 08:58 ./Messages/README 849478 4 -r--r----- 1 root root 54 May 2 08:58 ./Messages/dummy.qm 849479 124 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 119555 May 2 08:58 ./Messages/ca_ES.qm 849480 128 -r--r----- 1 root root 126179 May 2 08:58 ./Messages/de.qm 849481 120 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 118776 May 2 08:58 ./Messages/fr.qm 849482 84 -r--r----- 1 root root 81223 May 2 08:58 ./Messages/it.qm 849483 60 -r--r----- 1 root root 56469 May 2 08:58 ./Messages/ja.qm 849484 48 -r--r----- 1 root root 46024 May 2 08:58 ./Messages/ru.qm 1501444 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 2 08:58 ./Help 867781 4 -r--r----- 1 root root 1078 May 2 08:58 ./Help/AUTHORS 867790 4 -r--r----- 1 root root 455 May 2 08:58 ./Help/BUGS.txt 867795 76 -r--r----- 1 root root 69821 May 2 08:58 ./Help/ChangeLog 867796 16 -r--r----- 1 root root 15127 May 2 08:58 ./Help/COPYING 867799 4 -rw-r----- 1 root root 1329 May 2 08:58 ./Help/FAM-HOWTO.txt 867813 12 -rw-r----- 1 root root 9145 May 2 08:58 ./Help/FAQ.txt 867815 4 -rw-r----- 1 root root 1145 May 2 08:58 ./Help/INFO.txt 867820 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 4666 May 2 08:58 ./Help/INSTALL 867847 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 5419 May 2 08:58 ./Help/INSTALL.html 867915 4 -r--r----- 1 root root 2480 May 2 08:58 ./Help/LICENSE 867928 4 -r--r----- 1 root root 554 May 2 08:58 ./Help/NEWS 867939 4 -rw-r----- 1 root root 310 May 2 08:58 ./Help/PROXY-HOWTO.txt 867947 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 6156 May 2 08:58 ./Help/README 867949 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 6542 May 2 08:58 ./Help/README.html 867950 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 5628 May 2 08:58 ./Help/SSH-HOWTO.txt 867958 4 -r--r----- 1 root root 633 May 2 08:58 ./Help/THANKS 867961 4 -r--r----- 1 root root 14 May 2 08:58 ./Help/VERSION 1501445 4 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations 1501446 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/de 1124856 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 6537 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/de/LIESMICH.txt 1124924 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 7645 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/de/LIESMICH.html 1501447 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/it 964474 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 7969 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/it/LEGGIMI.txt 964475 12 -rw-r----- 1 root root 8375 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/it/LEGGIMI.html 1501448 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/ru 946814 4 -rw-r----- 1 root root 1521 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/ru/FAM-HOWTO.koi8r.txt 1044809 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 5036 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/ru/FAQ.koi8r.txt 1044811 4 -rw-r----- 1 root root 304 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/ru/PROXY-HOWTO.koi8r.txt 1044812 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 7473 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/ru/README.koi8.txt 1044813 4 -rw-r----- 1 root root 4070 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/ru/SSH-HOWTO.koi8.txt 1044814 4 -rw-r----- 1 root root 1833 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/ru/FAM-HOWTO.ru.html 1044815 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 4682 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/ru/INSTALL.html 1044816 4 -rw-r----- 1 root root 663 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/ru/PROXY-HOWTO.ru.html 1044817 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 7327 May 2 08:58 ./Help/Translations/ru/README.ru.html 1501449 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 2 08:58 ./Tools 1078400 4 -r-xr-x--- 1 root root 491 May 2 08:58 ./Tools/launch_emacs.sh 1078401 4 -r-xr-x--- 1 root root 495 May 2 08:58 ./Tools/launch_xemacs.sh 1078402 4 -r-xr-x--- 1 root root 310 May 2 08:58 ./Tools/start-ssh-agent.sh 1078403 4 -r-xr-x--- 1 root root 497 May 2 08:58 ./Tools/start-ssh.sh 1078406 28 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28128 May 2 08:58 ./Tools/ssh-askpass.bin 838814 2476 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2530152 May 2 08:58 ./lincvs.bin Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge lincvs 2. try to open help within lincvs or look have a look at /usr/share/LinCVS 3. Actual Results: permission denied for non-root-users Expected Results: i would like to read the help/manual ;-) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11.7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11.7 i686 Mobile Pentium II Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 28 2005, 15:12:33)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X X509 alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux emboss encode esd ethereal fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gphoto2 gtk gtk2 howl icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 irda java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg nas ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl png pnp python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang snmp spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis wavelan xine xml xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux libc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
with lincvs-1.4.0 this bug is gone.
