Bug 16846

Summary:	Portage Always changes Permissions on .../cvs-src!!
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Karl Abbott <karl1>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	sethbc
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Karl Abbott 2003-03-04 13:52:49 UTC

The latest version of portage, 2.0.47-r8 has a bug for people that use cvs
ebuilds. Regardless of what the permissions are on
/usr/portage/distfiles/cvs-src, everytime portage tries to do anything it
unnessicarily tries to change the permissions and ownership recursively on that
directory. This leads to severe slowdowns right before portage downloads a file,
before it compiles everything, and before it generates the ld.so.cache...not to
mention before it calculates what needs to be clean, and before every package
that it cleans. This gets to be insanely long taking even 30 minutes to build a
package of size 37k...so, for people using live cvs ebuilds, r8 is a deathtrap,
as in the slowdown process, portage consumes and does not release lots of
memory, and after a few ebuilds, it's not uncommon to be hitting swap.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge a CVS Ebuild (gaim-cvs,galeon-cvs, etc...)
2. Update to portage-2.0.47-r8
3. Resist the urge to curse!

Actual Results:  
Portage became slow as hell and almost unusable. I would rather use LFS than
wait 30 minutes for something that should take 2.

Expected Results:  
It should have not changed in speed at all. What took two minutes before should
still take two minutes.

I was running fluxbox, gnump3d, gaim-cvs, epiphany-cvs, and evolution.

Comment 1 Seth Chandler 2003-03-04 14:38:23 UTC

alright, i guess this is becuase cvs-src can be huge in terms of number of files... 
i guess we could simply not do this chown every emerge.... 
or we need to rework the way the cvs eclass does things.... 
 
possible ideas? 
 
does the cvs co, then tarbz2's that directory... 
then that is unpacked in the unpack phase... 
 
to update it checks for the live cvs tarbz2, unpacks its...cvs updates, repacks it? 
let me know what you think nick

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-03-04 14:41:42 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16768 ***