Bug 680000

Summary:	emerge --sync no longer works when run as non-root user
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Jonathan Callen (RETIRED) <jcallen>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jonathan Callen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-03-11 04:48:36 UTC

Before version 2.3.60, running `emerge --sync` as a non-root user (in the portage group) worked, so long as that user had write access to the tree(s) being synced.  This no longer works in 2.3.60 (after the patch for bug 636798 was committed), because portage tries to create an arbitrary file in /var/log (/var/log/.emerge.log.hardlock-<HOSTNAME>-<PID>).  This obviously does not work when emerge is run as a non-root user.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2019-03-11 17:02:46 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 678278 ***