I have my portage DISTDIR automounted from an nfs server at /misc/distfiles; /usr/portage/distfiles is a symlink, and DISTDIR is not explicitly set. This configuration worked fine on all versions of portage I have used for some years, and worked with 2.1.12.2. Since upgrading to 2.2.1, portage will not use the automounted DISTDIR. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure portage as described 2. emerge gimp Actual Results: >>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-gfx/gimp-2.8.6 !!! makedirs('/misc/distfiles/') !!! Directory Not Found: DISTDIR='/misc/distfiles' !!! Fetching will fail! !!! No write access to '/misc/distfiles' !!! statvfs('/misc/distfiles'): [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/misc/distfiles' !!! File gimp-2.8.6.tar.bz2 isn't fetched but unable to get it. * Fetch failed for 'media-gfx/gimp-2.8.6', Log file: * '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/gimp-2.8.6/temp/build.log' Expected Results: normal emerge output I suspect that what's going on is that portage is using stat() to test whether /misc/distfiles exists, and then using mkdir() to open it if not. That's incorrect, as you shouldn't be mkdir()ing in a directory that is mounted with -t autofs (like /misc). Here is the /proc/mounts line for /misc on my system: /etc/autofs/auto.misc /misc autofs rw,relatime,fd=6,pgrp=28483,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0
