Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: problem with cascade profiles

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

On Monday 06 September 2004 04:10, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> > Norberto Bensa wrote:
> > > Seems like a bug to me :(
> >
> >   http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62889
>
> And the fix sucks:
>
> [After installing portage-2.0.51-pre20...]
>
> nbensa@venkman ~ $ sudo emerge ttmkfdir
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
>
> >>> emerge (1 of 1) x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2 to /
>
> !!! No write access to /usr/portage/distfiles/
> !!! File ttmkfdir-3.0.9.tar.bz2 isn't fully fetched, but unable to complete
> it nbensa@venkman ~ $ sudo emerge -pv ttmkfdir
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild     U ] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2 [3.0.9-r1] -debug 0 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
>
> nbensa@venkman ~ $ ls -l /usr/portage/distfiles/ttmkfdir-3.0.9.tar.bz2
> -rw-rw----  1 root portage 20160 Mar 16
> 2003 /usr/portage/distfiles/ttmkfdir-3.0.9.tar.bz2
> nbensa@venkman ~ $ md5sum /usr/portage/distfiles/ttmkfdir-3.0.9.tar.bz2
> 7fbf13e432aa519669899b13d00673f3 
> /usr/portage/distfiles/ttmkfdir-3.0.9.tar.bz2 nbensa@venkman ~ $
> cat /usr/portage/x11-misc/ttmkfdir/files/digest-ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2
> MD5 7fbf13e432aa519669899b13d00673f3 ttmkfdir-3.0.9.tar.bz2 20160

portage-2.0.50_pre20 no longer does fetching as root. Make sure that 
the /usr/portage directory also has write access by the portage group and it 
should work. 

> [Why did I installed a pre version of portage ... ~:( ]

There may be a couple of hiccups(sp?) but it should be smooth running after 
working them out.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs

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