602948 – Running repoman should be possible without write permissions to /var/cache/portage/distfiles/

Bug 602948 - Running repoman should be possible without write permissions to /var/cache/portage/distfiles/

Summary: Running repoman should be possible without write permissions to /var/cache/po...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 596670

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Repoman (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2016-12-17 18:46 UTC by Andreas K. Hüttel
Modified:	2016-12-17 20:59 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2016-12-17 18:46:36 UTC

Tried running "repoman manifest" on pecker. This failed before I could actually do something, since metadata.dtd was outdated but I didnt have permissions to replace it... resulting in a python backtrace. 

This should at most cause a warning but not a hard failure.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2016-12-17 20:59:29 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 596670 ***