34970 – baselayout-1.8.6.12-r2 assumes there is a /home dir, trashes the dependency tree

Bug 34970 - baselayout-1.8.6.12-r2 assumes there is a /home dir, trashes the dependency tree

Summary: baselayout-1.8.6.12-r2 assumes there is a /home dir, trashes the dependency tree

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 9849

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High critical (vote)
Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-12-03 07:06 UTC by wal mart
Modified:	2011-01-15 14:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description wal mart 2003-12-03 07:06:28 UTC

!!! copy /var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.12-r2/image/home/.keep -> /home/.keep
failed.
!!! [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/.keep#new'
carnivore root # emerge -upD world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2200, in ?
    mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist())
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1105, in display
    elif (not "--emptytree" in myopts) and
portage.db[x[1]]["vartree"].exists_specific_cat(x[2]):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3480, in exists_specific_cat
    self.invalidentry(self.root+"var/db/pkg/"+a[0]+"/"+x)
AttributeError: vartree instance has no attribute 'invalidentry'
carnivore root # 


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. make /home unwriteable (mine is an NFS mount)
2. emerge baselayout-1.8.6.12-r2
3. repeat until bored

Actual Results:  
emerge -p no longer works

Expected Results:  
installed correctly

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-12-03 10:02:33 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9849 ***