Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

[Kerin Millar <kerframil@fastmail.co.uk>]

On 10/02/2014 16:05, Stroller wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm a little bit rusty, but my recollection is that I should be able to perform `eix-sync` (or `emerge --sync`?) as a user to synchronise my local copy of the portage tree with Gentoo's master portage tree.
>
> User is in the portage group:
>
> $ whoami
> stroller
> $ groups stroller
> wheel audio video portage cron users
> $
>
> Yet I get these permissons denied errors:
>
> $ eix-sync
>   * Running emerge --sync
>>>> Synchronization of repository 'gentoo' located in '/usr/portage'...
>>>> Starting rsync with rsync://91.186.30.235/gentoo-portage...
>>>> Checking server timestamp …
> …
> receiving incremental file list
> rsync: delete_file: unlink(app-accessibility/caribou/caribou-0.4.12.ebuild) failed: Permission denied (13)
> rsync: delete_file: unlink(app-accessibility/emacspeak/files/emacspeak-33.0-respect-ldflags.patch) failed: Permission denied (13)
> rsync: delete_file: unlink(app-accessibility/emacspeak/files/emacspeak-33.0-greader-garbage.patch) failed: Permission denied (13)
>
> (full output attached)
>
>
> Googling the problem I see a bunch of Gentoo Forums posts talking about changing at random the permissions of /var/tmp/ or /var/tmp/portage/, but no rationale is given, and I don't think this is the cause:
>
> $ emerge --info | grep -i tmpdir
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
> $ ls -ld /var/tmp/
> drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 Feb  5 13:47 /var/tmp/
> $ ls -ld /var/tmp/portage/
> drwxrwxr-x 5 portage portage 4096 Feb  5 12:32 /var/tmp/portage/
> $
>
>
> More likely seems to be the permissions of /usr/portage/:
>
> $ ls -ld /usr/portage/
> drwxr-xr-x 167 portage portage 4096 Jan  5 02:31 /usr/portage/
> $ ls -ld /usr/portage/app-accessibility/caribou/caribou*.ebuild
> -rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage 2432 Aug 25 23:11 /usr/portage/app-accessibility/caribou/caribou-0.4.12.ebuild
> -rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage 2431 Dec  8 18:01 /usr/portage/app-accessibility/caribou/caribou-0.4.13.ebuild
> $
>
> This would seem to allow portage itself to synchronise the Portage tree, but not members of the portage group.
>
>
> I am able to run `emerge --sync` as root, but it doesn't solve the solve the problem - next time I run `eix-sync` as user, I'm permissions denied, again.
>
> Shouldn't a sync reset the permissions of the portage tree to be correct?
>
>
> `emerge --info | grep -i feature` shows that FEATURES="userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" (and some others - see attached) are set.
>
> I can reproduce this on a second AMD64 machine, both are running portage-2.2.7.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help, advice or suggestions you can offer,

This should work:-

PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--chmod=g+w"

--Kerin