Bug 297358

Summary:	portage stops dead if permission denied while trying to make binpkgs (regardless of --keep-going)
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) <darkside>
Component:	Binary packages support	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	esigra
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	373807

Description Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2009-12-17 23:00:31 UTC

You may consider making the error message here more verbose and maybe honor --keep-going.

%% emerge -e world --keep-going
Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Verifying ebuild manifests

>>> Starting parallel fetch

>>> Emerging (1 of 77) sys-apps/portage-2.2.00.15027
<snip>
Permission denied: 'makedirs('/binpkgs/sys-apps')'
%% echo $?
13

Another option would be to check perms of $PKGDIR earlier in the process..?