Bug 54912 – emerge -pvuD world output differs if ran as a normal user or the root user.

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Carlos Eduardo Monti 2004-06-23 11:46:10 UTC]

When I do emerge -pvuD as my user (which is in the portage group) I get:
mindsuck@sacrifice mindsuck $ emerge -pvuD world
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
 
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r5  -3dfx +3dnow -bindist -cjk -debug -doc +ipv6 +mmx +nls +pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype +xml2  16,984 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/blackdown-jre-1.4.1   41,531 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1  -doc  79,032 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.25-r4  -build  31,488 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r5   [empty/missing/bad digest]
[ebuild  N    ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.60.7-r1  +ipv6 -mailwrapper -md5sum +ssl  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/modutils-2.4.25  -debug  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-fs/devfsd-1.3.25-r6  -debug  0 kB
 
Total size of downloads: 169,035 kB

If I do it as root, I get:
sacrifice root # emerge -pvuD world
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
 
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
 
Total size of downloads: 0 kB

I'm guessing this is related to my usage of /etc/portage/package.keywords to unmask some ~x86 packages.

I thought maybe /etc/portage/package.keywords had permissions set to be readable only by root, so I checked and it's fine:
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 381 Jun 23 15:29 /etc/portage/package.keywords

But still, I'm not sure if the issue is related to that in any way.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Unmask ~x86 packages using /etc/portage/package.keywords
2. emerge -pvuD world as root.
3. emerge -pvuD world as a user in the portage group.

Actual Results:  
Different output.

Expected Results:  
Same output.

/usr/portage/package.keywords:
media-gfx/gimp ~x86
gnome-extra/gdesklets-core ~x86
x11-plugins/desklet-starterbar ~x86
x11-plugins/desklet-goodweather ~x86
x11-plugins/desklet-ltvariations ~x86
x11-plugins/desklet-weather ~x86
media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86
media-video/nvidia-glx ~x86
x11-misc/linuxwacom ~x86
x11-base/xorg-x11 ~x86
x11-base/opengl-update ~x86
x11-terms/xterm ~x86
net-www/netscape-flash ~x86

emerge info:
Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0,
2.6.5-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo
http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib aavm acl alsa apache2 apm artswrappersuid audiofile avi
berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dga dvd encode esd ethereal faad fbcon flac flash
foomaticdb gb gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml
guile imap imlib innodb ipv6 java javascript jdepend jikes joystick jpeg junit
justify lcms libcaca libg++ libgda libwww mad maildir matroska memlimit mikmod
mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg
nas ncurses nls nocardbus nptl offensive oggvorbis openal opengl pam pdflib perl
plotutils png python quicktime readline rplay ruby samba sdl slang snmp speex
spell sse ssl stroke svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype trusted unicode usagi
usb video_cards_nvidia vim-with-x wmf wsconvert wxwindows x86 xface xml xml2
xmms xosd xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2004-06-23 15:47:01 UTC]

It's definately a permissions issue. Make sure that they are correct on /etc/portage itself as well as its contents.

Looking at what is actually shown to be merged by the user, also check permissions on /var/cache/edb/virtuals.

[Comment 2 Carlos Eduardo Monti 2004-06-23 16:12:28 UTC]

/var/cache/edb/virtuals was indeed the problematic file.
Permissions were:
-rw-r-----    1 root root       1267 jun 21 02:50 virtuals

I changed them to:
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1267 Jun 21 02:50 /var/cache/edb/virtuals

And emerge -pvuD world works as expected.

I never changed those permissions so I'm assuming 640 is the default, why not 644?

[Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2004-07-11 09:22:44 UTC]

That Virtuals file is obsoleted in 2.0.51.

As to why it was 0640... I have no idea.
Custom umask?