owner of portage?

dan.andersson · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2012 Posts: 9

I got a little puzzled i run "emerge --sync" as user and got permission denied on allot directorys, ok there is not any important there so i deleted all and tried again with same result. Hmm do i remember it wrong can't i sync as user (i am in portage group) ok so i run it as root and that works but now root owns all directorys under portage not portage as it was before.

Should i care? what has changed?

typical error with emerge --sync
rsync: mkstemp "/usr/portage/x11-terms/gnome-terminal/.ChangeLog.ix2ri1" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: failed to set times on "/usr/portage/x11-themes/pidgin-smileys": Operation not permitted (1)

and now when they are owned by root thats expected

chown -R portage:portage /usr/portage

doesnt change anything

slis · Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 10:27 am Post subject:

Have you run emerge as root / privileged user?

dan.andersson · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2012 Posts: 9

Yes, to get it to sync i run "emerge --sync" as root, i think it should set the owner to portage regardless of who runs it, as it cant be run as portage or at least i never do

slis · Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 10:55 am Post subject:

Please take a look on this page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml
Maybe you should try to remove the old one and unpack portage from snapshot.

dol-sen · Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 2:43 pm Post subject:

You need to set it up to use user privileges

Genone · Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 6:46 am Post subject:

slis · Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 6:52 am Post subject:

ok, my bad. I should read more carefully initial question.