1) Login as user 2) mkdir ~/repos && cd ~/repos 3) git clone https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo.git 4) cd net-misc/wget 5) repoman -d full You will get the error message: > RepoMan scours the neighborhood... > > *** the local copy of metadata.dtd needs to be refetched, doing that now > > > Repoman: Need user access The problem is that repoman wants to use a current metadata.dtd from system's portage tree... but the user running repoman isn't allowed to update /usr/portage/distfiles/metadata.dtd... An error message telling you need _user_ access doesn't make sense for me.
I just hit this today as well. I had blown away my distfiles directory to free up some space, then got a traceback: *** the local copy of metadata.xsd needs to be refetched, doing that now Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.4/repoman", line 44, in <module> repoman_main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/repoman/main.py", line 117, in repoman_main vcs_settings, mydir, env) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/repoman/scanner.py", line 191, in __init__ "metadata_xsd": get_metadata_xsd(self.repo_settings), File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/repoman/metadata.py", line 127, in get_metadata_xsd fetch_metadata_xsd(metadata_xsd, repo_settings.repoman_settings) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/repoman/metadata.py", line 78, in fetch_metadata_xsd prefix='metadata.xsd.', dir=destdir) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/tempfile.py", line 278, in mkstemp return _mkstemp_inner(dir, prefix, suffix, flags) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/tempfile.py", line 207, in _mkstemp_inner fd = _os.open(file, flags, 0o600) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/portage/distfiles/metadata.xsd.sk5yg0dc' after sudo mkdir /var/portage/distfiles/ && sudo chown -R portage:portage /var/portage/distfiles/, I reran it, and now get: Repoman: Need user access
(In reply to Austin English from comment #1) > after sudo mkdir /var/portage/distfiles/ && sudo chown -R portage:portage > /var/portage/distfiles/, I reran it, and now get: > Repoman: Need user access Ah, permissions were 755, changed to 775 so portage group had write access, now it's working. The error message could still be more helpful, though.
Does this mean that the solution to this error is to add user to the portage group? Wouldn't this be somewhat unsafe? In https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Repoman#.22Need_user_access.22 it is said that another option is to adjust filesystem permissions. Does this mean making the metadata.dtd file writeable by user? But if so, on my system the file is located in /usr/portage/metadata/dtd/metadata.dtd and is owned by root: % ls -ld /usr/portage/metadata/dtd/metadata.dtd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4421 Jan 9 12:09 /usr/portage/metadata/dtd/metadata.dtd % ls -ld /usr/portage/metadata/dtd/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 12 15:55 /usr/portage/metadata/dtd/ % ls -ld /usr/portage/metadata/ drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Feb 12 15:55 /usr/portage/metadata/ So adding user to portage would be of no help! My distfiles are in /usr/portage/distfiles and portage has group ownership there: % ls -ld /usr/portage/distfiles drwxrwxr-x 3 root portage 217088 Feb 13 03:40 /usr/portage/distfiles But, unlike comment 0, there is no metadata.dtd file in there: % ls -l /usr/portage/distfiles/metadata.dtd ls: cannot access '/usr/portage/distfiles/metadata.dtd': No such file or directory
(In reply to orionbelt2 from comment #3) You can set DISTDIR variable to something writable by user: DISTDIR=/tmp repoman ...
(In reply to Alexander Tsoy from comment #4) > (In reply to orionbelt2 from comment #3) > You can set DISTDIR variable to something writable by user: > DISTDIR=/tmp repoman ... Thanks, that worked!
repoman support has been removed per bug 835013. Please file a new bug (or, I suppose, reopen this one) if you feel this check is still applicable to pkgcheck and doesn't already exist.
