Bug 129098 – portage-2.1 emits redundant error messages

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-04-07 01:05:41 UTC]

$ euse -i apache
global use flags (searching: apache)
************************************************************

*** You are not in the portage group. You may experience cache problems
*** due to permissions preventing the creation of the on-disk cache.
*** Please add this user to the portage group if you wish to use portage.

!!! Failed to open file: '/var/cache/edb/mtimedb.4732'
!!! [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/edb/mtimedb.4732'
[-    ] apache - Chooses Apache1 support when a package optionally supports Apache1

local use flags (searching: apache)
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[-    ] apache (www-servers/gorg):
Install apache

Don't know if the portage group warning is really needed here or not, but the permission denied issue is really redundant. Another example:

$ emerge --info

<snip>
!!! Failed to open file: '/var/cache/edb/mtimedb.5980'
!!! [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/edb/mtimedb.5980'
</snip>

[Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2006-04-07 02:00:50 UTC]

The latter error message is python's string description of the error. This may not necessarily contain the file name but will contain the exact problem. Hence, both are needed to cover all cases.

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2006-04-07 02:10:09 UTC]

Created attachment 84117 [details, diff]
raise exception when canonical_path == filename

Hopefully this patch will make it slighly less annoying.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-04-07 02:40:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Hopefully this patch will make it slighly less annoying.

Yeah, much better now. ;) 

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2006-04-09 00:09:48 UTC]

The patch is in 2.1_pre7-r5.