Bug 520790

Summary:	app-portage/eix-0.29.3: eix-update silently ignores failing read of make.conf if permissions are 600
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Toralf Förster <toralf>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2014-08-24 19:59:40 UTC

run into it - when I run eix-update yesterday within a chroot image (probably run it as portage:portage ?) -- it doesn't read that file, therefore it ignored the PORTDIR_OVERLAY directory

at least I'd expect an error message

Comment 1 Martin Väth 2014-08-24 22:37:16 UTC

It is not an error to have no or unreadable make.conf - especially, since there are different locations for it like /etc/make.conf and /etc/portage/make.conf, and users of other package managers (paludis) usually have neither.
Moreover, for portage overlays are often set in /etc/portage/overlays.conf instead of make.conf.