Bug 133157

Summary:	--regen requires root privs (yet it doesn't)
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Brian Harring (RETIRED) <ferringb>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	115839

Description Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-12 17:29:08 UTC

emerge --regen won't run if user isn't root, this is a bug- nothing in that code path should require root (it's no different then what emerge -s does).

Comment 1 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-12 17:29:52 UTC

...affects 2.1 at the very least, prolly affects 2.0 also.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2006-05-13 15:22:14 UTC

In svn r3346 --metadata and -regen are now allowed for users in the portage group.

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2006-05-14 17:41:21 UTC

This has been released in 2.1_rc2-r2.