Bug 499358

Summary:	app-portage/eix ignores config files symlinked into /etc/portage/*
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Franz Trischberger <franz.trischberger>
Component:	Third-Party Tools	Assignee:	Martin Väth <martin>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	axs, franz.trischberger, proxy-maint, xmw
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Franz Trischberger 2014-01-26 14:47:48 UTC

In order to install gnome-3.10 for a friend I cloned the gentoo gnome overlay and used its config files to get a quick start - I simply created symbolic links. Unforitnately eix ignores those files and still tells me e.g. net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.2.2 was masked, though it is not.

Comment 1 Martin Väth 2014-01-26 20:21:13 UTC

So far, eix never had problems to read symlinks in /etc/portage.
I suppose that something else is wrong with your setup (wrong filename, wrong directory name, ...)

Comment 2 Franz Trischberger 2014-01-26 22:08:46 UTC

ls -l /etc/portage/package.unmask/gnome3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 25. Jan 11:02 /etc/portage/package.unmask/gnome3 -> /root/src/gnome/status/portage-configs/package.unmask.gnome3

grep webkit-gtk /etc/portage/package.unmask/gnome3
>=net-libs/webkit-gtk-2

eix -eI webkit-gtk
[D] net-libs/webkit-gtk
     Available versions:  
     (2)    1.8.3-r200 1.8.3-r201
     (3)    1.8.3-r300 (~)1.10.2-r300 2.0.4(3/25) [M](~)2.2.2(3/29)
       {aqua coverage debug doc +egl +geoloc gles2 +gstreamer +introspection +jit libsecret +opengl spell test +webgl webkit2}
     Installed versions:  2.2.2(3)(17:34:41 26.01.2014)(egl geoloc gstreamer introspection jit opengl spell webgl -aqua -coverage -debug -gles2 -libsecret -test)

I think my config setup/naming is valid.
webkit-gtk is just an example, any package that is unmasked in a symlinked file is not recognized by eix. Also package.accept_keywords is affected the same way.

Comment 3 Franz Trischberger 2014-01-27 07:53:40 UTC

I now moved the cloned overlay from /root/src to /var/repositories (where all my repos live) and now it seems to work.
The remaining question is, why eix run as root did not "see" those files. A user is not able to see them - which I was fully aware of. It's only me who administrates that computer, logged in as root via ssh. So I expexted this setup to work.

Comment 4 Martin Väth 2014-01-27 08:56:17 UTC

(In reply to Franz Fellner from comment #3)
> A user is not able to see them

This would have been my next question after your example:
By default, eix drops permissions to portage:portage (250:250) as soon as possible.

So I suppose the issue is solved: You either have to change permissions or to configure eix (EIX_USER,EIX_GROUP,EIX_UID,EIX_GID) to keep/set corresponding permissions.