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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] How to test package install?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:37:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180215023750.rbva7yn3dweqs35d@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> (raw)

I'm trying to test my package by running "ebuild /path/to/pkg.ebuild
install".  Naturally (for me) I do this as an unprivileged user, not as
root.  It fails because at least some steps such as dobin need to give
away ownership of the files being installed.  I tried to run the whole
thing including compilation under fakeroot but that doesn't help.

If it is relevant (but I don't think it is) my user _is_ in the portage
group.

What is the accepted or usual way to do this task?

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             reply	other threads:[~2018-02-15  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-15  2:37 Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2018-02-15  3:37 ` [gentoo-user] How to test package install? John Covici
2018-02-15  7:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2018-02-15  8:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-15 22:39 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2018-02-15 23:21   ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-17  2:12     ` Andreas K. Huettel

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