Bug 260218

Summary:	app-portage/layman-1.2.3: Error message when using layman -L not as root
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Johannes Rauh <jarauh>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Sebastian Pipping <sping>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	andrew.frink
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Johannes Rauh 2009-02-25 10:07:17 UTC

If I run layman -L not as root I get a list of error messages. The reason is that layman needs the right to write to /usr/local/portage/layman in order to update the cache.

In my opinion, if run as a regular user, layman -L should catch this error and only print an adequate short warning (instead of five lines of errors).

The output is as follows:

* Failed to update the overlay list from: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt
* Error was:                                                                                      
* Failed to temporarily cache overlays list in /usr/local/portage/layman/cache_65bd38402ac8431067b54904bd2ed2d1.xml
* Error was:                                                                                                       
* [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/portage/layman/cache_65bd38402ac8431067b54904bd2ed2d1.xml'

Comment 1 Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev

2010-01-05 15:06:27 UTC

Fix in Git repo, patch by Bjoern Tropf:
http://layman.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=layman/layman;a=commitdiff;h=a977b9542d18da2cde5ce03cb75e403c6630f5e2

You can emerge =app-portage/layman-9999 to give it a spin.