Bug 523098

Summary:	sys-devel/crossdev - cross-emerge wrapper should not add fakeroot
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Embedded Gentoo Team <embedded>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489016
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	remove fakeroot

Description Joakim Tjernlund 2014-09-18 08:21:08 UTC

Created attachment 384990 [details, diff]
remove fakeroot

Portage is not designed to run wrapped in fakeroot. Instead
one should set FEATURES="fakeroot". Wrapping emerge with
fakeroot triggers emerge to disable fakeroot.
See bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489016

NB.
This patch has been on the embedded list for a long time.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2014-09-18 16:53:29 UTC

fakeroot is probably useless now anyways with user namespace in the kernel

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/crossdev.git;a=commitdiff;h=56b32e1a3c5da6c3a39270840a8bc99fe321227d

Comment 2 Joakim Tjernlund 2014-09-18 17:39:34 UTC

Can user name spaces also allown chown(2) like fakeroot do?

If so this would be very good to have native in portage :)

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2014-10-20 16:52:16 UTC

(In reply to Joakim Tjernlund from comment #2)

it will make it look like the current uid is 0, so the code is running as root

Comment 4 Joakim Tjernlund 2014-10-20 17:30:54 UTC

(In reply to SpanKY from comment #3)
> (In reply to Joakim Tjernlund from comment #2)
> 
> it will make it look like the current uid is 0, so the code is running as
> root

Yes, but that does not allow you to do chown from the small tests I have done.