Running ebuild <ebuild> merge should of course not be posssible as a normal user. We should detect this during option parsing and tell this to the user. betelgeuse@pena /mnt/checkouts/overlays/migrated-java/dev-java/jlayer $ devebuild jlayer-1.0.ebuild clean merge Disabling noauto in features... merge disables it. (qmerge doesn't) * jlayer1.0.tar.gz MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * jlayer1.0.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * jlayer1.0.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * jlayer1.0.tar.gz SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * jlayer1.0.tar.gz size ;-) ... [ ok ] * Using: sun-jdk-1.5 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking jlayer1.0.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/jlayer-1.0/work tar: A lone zero block at 4106 removed `jl1.0.jar' >>> Source unpacked. Rewriting ./build.xml >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/jlayer-1.0/work/JLayer1.0 ... * Disabling system classpath for ant Buildfile: build.xml init: [echo] ------------------------------------------------------------- [echo] ------------ BUILDING JLAYER PACKAGE ---------- build: [echo] ------ Compiling application dist: [echo] ------ Building Jar file [jar] Building jar: /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/jlayer-1.0/work/JLayer1.0/jl1.0.jar BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 1 second >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: dev-java/jlayer-1.0 >>> Install jlayer-1.0 into /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/jlayer-1.0/image/ category dev-java install: cannot change ownership of `/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/jlayer-1.0/image//usr/bin/jl-converter': Operation not permitted install: cannot change ownership of `/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/jlayer-1.0/image//usr/bin/jl-player': Operation not permitted install: cannot change ownership of `/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/jlayer-1.0/image//usr/bin/jl-advanced-player': Operation not permitted >>> Completed installing jlayer-1.0 into /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/jlayer-1.0/image/ man: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ebuild", line 114, in ? debug=debug, tree=mytree) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3186, in doebuild vartree=vartree, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3387, in merge mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6814, in merge cleanup=cleanup, mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6246, in treewalk self.lockdb() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5899, in lockdb self.lock_pkg = portage_locks.lockdir(self.dbpkgdir) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_locks.py", line 21, in lockdir return lockfile(mydir,wantnewlockfile=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_locks.py", line 53, in lockfile myfd = os.open(lockfilename, os.O_CREAT|os.O_RDWR,0660) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/db/pkg/dev-java/jlayer-1.0.portage_lockfile' betelgeuse@pena /mnt/checkouts/overlays/migrated-java/dev-java/jlayer $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_rc1-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Unknown distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/var/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect cvs distlocks fixpackages java-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms sign strict stricter userpriv usersandbox verify-rdepend" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://lame.lut.fi/linux/gentoo " LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="fi" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s" PKGDIR="/home/pkg/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/checkouts/overlays/betelgeuse /mnt/checkouts/overlays/xgl-overlay /mnt/checkouts/overlays/migrated-java /mnt/checkouts/overlays/java-experimental /mnt/checkouts/overlays/portage-xgl /mnt/checkouts/overlays/sunrise /mnt/checkouts/overlays/voip" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 aac acl acpi alsa arts audiofile bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emboss esd fam ffmpeg firefox gif gstreamer hal iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux libg++ linguas_fi logitech-mouse mad mikmod mjpeg mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses network nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg opengl pam pcre png ppds pppd qt3 quicktime readline real reflection rtc samba session spell spl sse sse2 ssl subversion svg symlink tcpd theora threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales video_cards_none video_cards_nvidia vorbis xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
we should catch the traceback but i dont think disallowing a non-root user to run the merge operation should be added ... cant you utilize $ROOT as a non-root user and merge files just fine ?
(In reply to comment #1) > we should catch the traceback but i dont think disallowing a non-root user to > run the merge operation should be added ... > > cant you utilize $ROOT as a non-root user and merge files just fine ? > You are likely right here.
In svn r4916, I've fixed it to fail with a simple "Permission denied" error if the merge phase doesn't have write access to $ROOT.
This has been released in 2.1.2_rc1-r4.
