[gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use

[gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use

[Walter Dnes]

  After an update, I was going through /var/log/portage/elog and came
across a "WARN: setup" message that the "gpgme" flag had been renamed to
"gpg".  Looking at /etc/portage/package.use I saw, amongst other things

mail-client/mutt buffysize
mail-client/mutt gpgme
mail-client/mutt pop
mail-client/mutt smime
mail-client/mutt smtp

*THAT IS NOT MY EDITING STYLE*.  I put the options on one line, like so

media-video/mplayer alsa i8x0 mmxext real ssse3

  Unless someone has been sneaking into my place and editing
/etc/portage/package.use, I can only assume that this has been done by
portage.  Am I paranoid?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use

[Mick]

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On Sunday 27 September 2009, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   After an update, I was going through /var/log/portage/elog and came
> across a "WARN: setup" message that the "gpgme" flag had been renamed to
> "gpg".  Looking at /etc/portage/package.use I saw, amongst other things
>
> mail-client/mutt buffysize
> mail-client/mutt gpgme
> mail-client/mutt pop
> mail-client/mutt smime
> mail-client/mutt smtp
>
> *THAT IS NOT MY EDITING STYLE*.  I put the options on one line, like so
>
> media-video/mplayer alsa i8x0 mmxext real ssse3
>
>   Unless someone has been sneaking into my place and editing
> /etc/portage/package.use, I can only assume that this has been done by
> portage.  Am I paranoid?

To complete the diagnosis we may need the version of your portage?  ;-)

I'm on sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.1 and the syntax is on one line.  I don't know 
what happens with the [M]~ versions.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 27 September 2009, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   
>>   After an update, I was going through /var/log/portage/elog and came
>> across a "WARN: setup" message that the "gpgme" flag had been renamed to
>> "gpg".  Looking at /etc/portage/package.use I saw, amongst other things
>>
>> mail-client/mutt buffysize
>> mail-client/mutt gpgme
>> mail-client/mutt pop
>> mail-client/mutt smime
>> mail-client/mutt smtp
>>
>> *THAT IS NOT MY EDITING STYLE*.  I put the options on one line, like so
>>
>> media-video/mplayer alsa i8x0 mmxext real ssse3
>>
>>   Unless someone has been sneaking into my place and editing
>> /etc/portage/package.use, I can only assume that this has been done by
>> portage.  Am I paranoid?
>>     
>
> To complete the diagnosis we may need the version of your portage?  ;-)
>
> I'm on sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.1 and the syntax is on one line.  I don't know 
> what happens with the [M]~ versions.
>   

If it helps any, I'm on Portage 2.2_rc42 and my package.use file is
normal.  That is one line with multiple USE flags on the one line. 
Portage did upgrade tonight tho.  I think it was rc40 before that. 
Also, I still have the file, not a directory for package.*.  I still
haven't switched yet.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:55:42AM +0100, Mick wrote

> To complete the diagnosis we may need the version of your portage?  ;-)

  Sorry about that.  Here are the details... 

[d530][root][~] emerge -pv portage

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13  USE="-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux)"
LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB

  Since it only shows up with mutt so far, maybe it's actually mutt...

d530 mutt # emerge -pv mutt

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] mail-client/mutt-1.5.20-r4  USE="pop smime smtp -berkdb
-crypt -debug -doc -gdbm -gnutls -gpg -idn -imap -mbox -nls -nntp -qdbm
-sasl -sidebar -ssl -vanilla" 0 kB

  It is remotely possible that I did make the package.use entries
manually, but very unlikely.

  Speaking of mutt, is there a way to turn off its insistence on
creating symlinks called "sendmail"?  My most embarressing moment as a
linux user came several years ago when I first created an hourly
cronjob.  I wasn't aware of the need for ending it with "2>&1".  The
garbage output went to root via "sendmail", which was actually a symlink
to mutt.  mutt is a deliberately dumb mailer that simply pushes email
out the door to my ISP's MTA.  So the hourly garbage went to root at my
ISP.  They sent me a polite email asking me to kindly stop. <G>

  I took a couple of steps then.  Besides adding "2>&1" to my cronjobs,
I set root=<myaccount> in /etc/ssmtp/ssmpt.conf, so that any stuff
getting through would go to my account at my ISP, not to root at my ISP.
I also went around stomping on the symlinks.  So far, I've discovered
/usr/bin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail.  In each
case, I deleted the symlink, created a directory by that name, and did a
"touch .keep" inside the directory.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use

[Kyle Bader]

Use a MAILTO= in your crontab and notifications will go to any address
you want, leave MAILTO blank and it won't mail at all.

On 9/27/09, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:55:42AM +0100, Mick wrote
>
>> To complete the diagnosis we may need the version of your portage?  ;-)
>
>   Sorry about that.  Here are the details...
>
> [d530][root][~] emerge -pv portage
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13  USE="-build -doc -epydoc
> (-selinux)"
> LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB
>
>   Since it only shows up with mutt so far, maybe it's actually mutt...
>
> d530 mutt # emerge -pv mutt
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] mail-client/mutt-1.5.20-r4  USE="pop smime smtp -berkdb
> -crypt -debug -doc -gdbm -gnutls -gpg -idn -imap -mbox -nls -nntp -qdbm
> -sasl -sidebar -ssl -vanilla" 0 kB
>
>   It is remotely possible that I did make the package.use entries
> manually, but very unlikely.
>
>   Speaking of mutt, is there a way to turn off its insistence on
> creating symlinks called "sendmail"?  My most embarressing moment as a
> linux user came several years ago when I first created an hourly
> cronjob.  I wasn't aware of the need for ending it with "2>&1".  The
> garbage output went to root via "sendmail", which was actually a symlink
> to mutt.  mutt is a deliberately dumb mailer that simply pushes email
> out the door to my ISP's MTA.  So the hourly garbage went to root at my
> ISP.  They sent me a polite email asking me to kindly stop. <G>
>
>   I took a couple of steps then.  Besides adding "2>&1" to my cronjobs,
> I set root=<myaccount> in /etc/ssmtp/ssmpt.conf, so that any stuff
> getting through would go to my account at my ISP, not to root at my ISP.
> I also went around stomping on the symlinks.  So far, I've discovered
> /usr/bin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail.  In each
> case, I deleted the symlink, created a directory by that name, and did a
> "touch .keep" inside the directory.
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
>
>

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Kyle