[gentoo-user] How to test package install?

[gentoo-user] How to test package install?

[Ian Zimmerman]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] How to test package install?

[John Covici]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:37:50 -0500,
Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> 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?

Usually installs are always done as root -- because there is always
something like what you have described.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to test package install?

[Alan McKinnon]

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On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 4:37 AM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org> wrote:

> 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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You can normally build as yourself. Install requires root typically due to
write permissions on *bin and /etc.

You can probably come up with a clever way to do this, but by far the
easiest is the classic:

sudo ebuild /path/to/pkg.ebuild install

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to test package install?

[Neil Bothwick]

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The install step only installs to a temporary directory under $PORTAGE_TMPDIR so it is reasonably safe as root, but for more security run the procedure inside a container/chroot/VM. 

On 15 February 2018 02:37:50 GMT+00:00, Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org> wrote:
>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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Re: [gentoo-user] How to test package install?

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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Am Donnerstag, 15. Februar 2018, 03:37:50 CET schrieb Ian Zimmerman:
> 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?

That should usually "just work". 

Did you use fakeroot directly (bad), or did you add "fakeroot" to FEATURES in 
make.conf (good)?

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[gentoo-user] Re: How to test package install?

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2018-02-15 23:39, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:

> > 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.

> That should usually "just work". 
> 
> Did you use fakeroot directly (bad), or did you add "fakeroot" to
> FEATURES in make.conf (good)?

The former.  I didn't know about the feature.  Is it safe to enable it
for "production" runs as well?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to test package install?

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2018, 00:21:37 CET schrieb Ian Zimmerman:
> On 2018-02-15 23:39, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > That should usually "just work".
> > 
> > Did you use fakeroot directly (bad), or did you add "fakeroot" to
> > FEATURES in make.conf (good)?
> 
> The former.  I didn't know about the feature.  Is it safe to enable it
> for "production" runs as well?

Yes, it should be safe. At least I have it on all the time and never noticed 
any problems.

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