[gentoo-dev] pretend requires root?

[gentoo-dev] pretend requires root?

[Yannick Koehler]

Hello,

	Is it possible to make portage not require 'root' level when only doing 
--pretend stuff?

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Yannick Koehler

Re: [gentoo-dev] pretend requires root?

[William McArthur]

Yannick Koehler wrote:
> Is it possible to make portage not require 'root' level when only doing 
> --pretend stuff?

I'm not an expert on portage but if you change the perms on 
/var/tmp/portage to be world writeable it may work.

# chmod -R a+w /var/tmp/portage

You should be aware that this isn't smart on a multi user box.

Sandy McArthur

Re: [gentoo-dev] pretend requires root?

[Yannick Koehler]

On April 20, 2002 03:55 pm, William McArthur wrote:
> Yannick Koehler wrote:
> > Is it possible to make portage not require 'root' level when only doing
> > --pretend stuff?
>
> I'm not an expert on portage but if you change the perms on
> /var/tmp/portage to be world writeable it may work.
>
> # chmod -R a+w /var/tmp/portage
>
> You should be aware that this isn't smart on a multi user box.
>
> Sandy McArthur

hmm, not acceptable for my idea.  I'd like that kemerge do not require SU to 
do the pretend but requires it for the real emerge.  For now it requires it 
for both.  If we can add this as the 2.x feature of portage I'll be very very 
happy.

Yannick Koehler

Re: [gentoo-dev] pretend requires root?

[Terje Kvernes]

Yannick Koehler <yannick.koehler@colubris.com> writes:

> Is it possible to make portage not require 'root' level when only
> doing --pretend stuff?

  this is hardwired in /usr/bin/emerge.  look at the section starting
  on line 104 and so on.

-- 
Terje

Re: [gentoo-dev] pretend requires root?

[Terje Kvernes]

Terje Kvernes <terjekv@math.uio.no> writes:

> Yannick Koehler <yannick.koehler@colubris.com> writes:
> 
> > Is it possible to make portage not require 'root' level when only
> > doing --pretend stuff?
> 
> this is hardwired in /usr/bin/emerge.  look at the section starting
> on line 104 and so on.

  for the record, just adding a clause for --pretend to be allowed for
  non-root users should work.  something like this is all you need:

--- /usr/bin/emerge     Sun Apr 21 03:59:19 2002
+++ /usr/bin/emerge.orig        Sun Apr 21 03:57:53 2002
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
                        myfiles.append(x)
 
 # check if root user is the current user for the actions where emerge needs this
-if os.getuid()!=0 and ("--help" not in myopts) and ("--version" not in myopts) and ("search"!=myaction) and ("--pretend" not in myopts):
+if os.getuid()!=0 and ("--help" not in myopts) and ("--version" not in myopts) and ("search"!=myaction):
        print "!!! to be able to perform the requested action, emerge must be run by root."
        sys.exit(1)

-- 
Terje - who was at a party earlier, and was a tad too busy to provide
        more info at that time.  :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] pretend requires root?

[Preston A. Elder]

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> -if os.getuid()!=0 and ("--help" not in myopts) and ("--version" not in myopts) and ("search"!=myaction) and ("--pretend" not in myopts):
> +if os.getuid()!=0 and ("--help" not in myopts) and ("--version" not in myopts) and ("search"!=myaction):

Would probably work a little better if you switched the '+' and '-' :)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] pretend requires root?

[Terje Kvernes]

"Preston A. Elder" <prez@goth.net> writes:

> > -if os.getuid()!=0 and ("--help" not in myopts) and ("--version" not in myopts) and ("search"!=myaction) and ("--pretend" not in myopts):
> > +if os.getuid()!=0 and ("--help" not in myopts) and ("--version" not in myopts) and ("search"!=myaction):
> 
> Would probably work a little better if you switched the '+' and '-' :)

  bah.  just because I make patches at 5am, _someone_ has to point out
  the errors.  thanks.  :)

-- 
Terje

Re: [gentoo-dev] pretend requires root?

[Yannick Koehler]

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On April 21, 2002 08:55 am, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> "Preston A. Elder" <prez@goth.net> writes:
> > > -if os.getuid()!=0 and ("--help" not in myopts) and ("--version" not in
> > > myopts) and ("search"!=myaction) and ("--pretend" not in myopts): +if
> > > os.getuid()!=0 and ("--help" not in myopts) and ("--version" not in
> > > myopts) and ("search"!=myaction):
> >
> > Would probably work a little better if you switched the '+' and '-' :)
>
>   bah.  just because I make patches at 5am, _someone_ has to point out
>   the errors.  thanks.  :)

thanks, will someone commit this patch?

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Yannick Koehler
 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] pretend requires root?

[Terje Kvernes]

Yannick Koehler <yannick.koehler@colubris.com> writes:

> On April 21, 2002 08:55 am, Terje Kvernes wrote:
>
> > bah.  just because I make patches at 5am, _someone_ has to point out
> > the errors.  thanks.  :)
> 
> thanks, 

  you're welcome.  :)

> will someone commit this patch?

  ...but I can't help you there.  :/

-- 
Terje

Re: [gentoo-dev] pretend requires root? (NEED SOMEONE TO COMMIT PATCH)

[Yannick Koehler]

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> > thanks,
>
>   you're welcome.  :)
>
> > will someone commit this patch?
>
>   ...but I can't help you there.  :/

So we need a CVS Write access capable kind of guy ;-)  How we get that?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] pretend requires root? (NEED SOMEONE TO COMMIT PATCH)

[Preston A. Elder]

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Hrm, now where oh where would we find a developer on the gentoo
developers list? hrrrrm ... ;P

On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 08:41, Yannick Koehler wrote:
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> > > thanks,
> >
> >   you're welcome.  :)
> >
> > > will someone commit this patch?
> >
> >   ...but I can't help you there.  :/
> 
> So we need a CVS Write access capable kind of guy ;-)  How we get that?
> 
> - -- 
> 
> Yannick Koehler
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Re: [gentoo-dev] pretend requires root? (NEED SOMEONE TO COMMIT PATCH)

[Thilo Bangert]

On 22 Apr 2002 09:34:19 -0400
"Preston A. Elder" <prez@goth.net> wrote:

> Hrm, now where oh where would we find a developer on the gentoo
> developers list? hrrrrm ... ;P
> 

the busy devs are listening...

but, its not all devs that want to deal with portage directly
your best chance is to send this to drobbins directly...
you can catch him on IRC quite often (as well as a large number of
other devs)

regards

Thilo