Upgrading eix-0.25.4 on the OSX prefix fails with "chown: invalid user: ‘portage:portage’". The core system doesn't have the portage user or group and the eix installation script doesn't handle this correctly. OSX doesn't use /etc/passwd or /etc/group normally so adding the porage user & group there doesn't help. First a suitable UID should be identified: dscl . -list /Users UniqueID | sort -k2 -n From the previous command I note on my system that UID 250 is available, so issuing the following command creates the user. sudo dscl . -create /Users/portage UniqueID:250 Finally eix-0.25.4 can be installed.
Please post your emerge --info
I wanted to see your emerge --info because the ebuild already protects against running chown in the prefix env. Need more info.
Let me know if you need further information from what's below. $ sudo emerge --info Password: Portage 2.2.01.20430-prefix (prefix/darwin/macos/10.6/x64, gcc-4.2.1, unavailable, 11.4.0 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Darwin-11.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit Timestamp of tree: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:51:44 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20::gentoo_prefix dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1::gentoo_prefix dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.25-r2::gentoo_prefix sys-devel/autoconf: 2.68::gentoo_prefix sys-devel/automake: 1.11.5::gentoo_prefix sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5-r2::gentoo_prefix sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2::gentoo_prefix sys-devel/make: 3.82::gentoo_prefix Repositories: gentoo_prefix Installed sets: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x64-macos" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-apple-darwin10" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" CHOST="x86_64-apple-darwin10" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/portage /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" DISTDIR="/opt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles force-prefix news nostrip parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs" PKGDIR="/opt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/opt/gentoo/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/opt/gentoo/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/opt/gentoo/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.prefix.freens.org/gentoo-portage-prefix" USE="aqua bzip2 coreaudio cracklib cxx ipv6 mmx mmxext modules ncurses objc objc++ perl prefix readline sse sse2 ssl subversion x64-macos zlib" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="Darwin" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="Darwin" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
I wanted to see your emerge --info to ensure that you had USE=prefix (forced on for prefix profiles). As I indicated in comment #2, the ebuild has this code: "use prefix || chown portage:portage "${EROOT}var/cache/${PN}"" - so it should be no problem for you! (and it is no problem here) Do you have the build.log to see what line failed?
Created attachment 312691 [details] Build log during failed build
(In reply to comment #5) > Created attachment 312691 [details] > Build log during failed build Ah, "fowners failed" is a different line. I wonder why it fails for you and not others.
(In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #5) > > Created attachment 312691 [details] > > Build log during failed build > > Ah, "fowners failed" is a different line. I wonder why it fails for you and > not others. The portage fowners() code does this: if [[ ${ret} != 0 && -n ${EPREFIX} && ${EUID} != 0 ]] ; then ewarn "fowners failure ignored in Prefix with non-privileged user" exit 0 fi So, the big question, are you installing packages as root??!
(In reply to comment #3) > Let me know if you need further information from what's below. > > $ sudo emerge --info Hi, maybe it is because you are using Prefix with root priviledge. Some part of portage (not tracked down though) uses portage uid to conclude if it is a Prefix. And as you said normal portage cannot behave well on MacOSX for it depends on /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
Oh great, darkside has already tracked it down ;)
(In reply to comment #7) > So, the big question, are you installing packages as root??! Yes: $ sudo emerge -v eix
(In reply to comment #10) > (In reply to comment #7) > > So, the big question, are you installing packages as root??! > > Yes: > $ sudo emerge -v eix That is bad and not well tested/supported. You are on your own here.
(In reply to comment #11) > That is bad and not well tested/supported. You are on your own here. Okay - my mistake. I see the install docs have no reference to sudo or root so it was my assumption that portage is a root level tool. Will reset my env and be aware of this. Thanks.
It is in the usecases doc, somethign like "a good use case is where you don't have root access" Question: would a note on the install doc that said "remember, you don't need root access to use Gentoo Prefix" be helpful?
Yes - notes in the docs would make this clearer. I'm looking at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-macos.xml, and I recall seeing in other docs some different types of NOTICE style boxes. A notice would be very useful at the beginning of each of the prefix installation docs, so currently OSX, Solaris 10, FreeBSD, as linked from http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/
Having this same issue with version 0.29.1. emerge --info Portage 2.2.01.22124-prefix (prefix/darwin/macos/10.8/x64, gcc-4.2.1, unavailable, 12.4.0 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Darwin-12.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit Timestamp of tree: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:36:09 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p39-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5, 3.3.2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.11.1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.12.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8-r00.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 Repositories: gentoo_prefix ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x64-macos" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-apple-darwin12" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-apple-darwin12" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/Users/tatsh/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles force-prefix merge-sync news nostrip parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/Users/tatsh/gentoo/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/Users/tatsh/gentoo/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/Users/tatsh/gentoo/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/Users/tatsh/gentoo/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.prefix.freens.org/gentoo-portage-prefix" USE="aqua bash-completion cjk consolekit coreaudio cracklib cxx ipv6 mmx mmxext modules ncurses nls objc objc++ policykit prefix readline semantic-desktop sse sse2 ssl unicode vim-syntax x64-macos zlib" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="Darwin" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="Darwin" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en_GB en" NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="access auth_basic autoindex browser charset empty_gif fastcgi gzip headers limit_req limit_zone memcached proxy referer rewrite scgi split_clients ssi upstream_ip_hash userid uwsgi flv gzip_static stub_status headers_more sub dav map perl mp4 fancyindex upload upload_progress push_stream" NGINX_MODULES_MAIL="smtp imap" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-4" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON Will attach build log.
Created attachment 353822 [details] build log
This is basically not really supported, sorry.
The bug has actually been fixed.
