On mer. 18 mars 19:20:23 2020, Jack wrote: > On 2020.03.18 18:59, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > After a hiatus I am trying to create my own ebuild repository again. I > > need a way to test the separate steps (fetch, prepare, comiple, install > > etc.) and I would like to do all of them as a regular user (not root, > > not portage). I tried what I thought was the most natural attempt - run > > the ebuild program under fakeroot, but it still breaks trying to change > > permissions of things in PORTAGE_TMPDIR (of course override the value of > > this variable). I don't understand this - it looks just like what > > fakeroot was intended to help with? Anyway, I'm not married to > > fakeroot, > > just looking for a way to do these test runs. > > > > I remember that I could do this the first time, a couple of years ago. > > But I don't remember how :-( > This is from memory - not currently tested, but I often do the various > ebuild steps as myself, without a fakeroot, and not overriding the system > PORTAGE_TMPDIR.. Again, from memory, as long as I opened permissions on > PORTAGE_TMPDIR so I could create the necessary directories, I could do all > steps as myself except for the final qmerge. Once you create the group and > package directories under PORTAGE_TMPDIR, there shouldn't be any problems. > The final qmerge step clearly requires root, unless you are using a chroot > to install somewhere other than the real system directories. > > Jack
I’m also invoking ebuild as a regular user, the only thing that needs permissions is when using git. However, you have to be part of the portage group to do this. alarig@pikachu ~ % ls -lhd /var/tmp/portage/ drwxrwxr-x 8 portage portage 4.0K Mar 19 08:37 /var/tmp/portage/ alarig@pikachu ~ % ebuild /var/db/repos/SwordArMor/net-misc/FORT-validator/FORT-validator-1.2.0.ebuild prepare * FORT-validator-1.2.0.tar.gz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking FORT-validator-1.2.0.tar.gz to >>> /var/tmp/portage/net-misc/FORT-validator-1.2.0/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/net-misc/FORT-validator-1.2.0/work >>> Preparing source in >>> /var/tmp/portage/net-misc/FORT-validator-1.2.0/work/FORT-validator-1.2.0 ... * Applying FORT-validator-skip-online-test.patch ... [ ok ] * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/FORT-validator-1.2.0/work/FORT-validator-1.2.0' ... * Running aclocal ... [ ok ] * Running autoconf --force ... [ ok ] * Running autoheader ... [ ok ] * Running automake --add-missing --copy --foreign --force-missing ... [ ok ] * Running elibtoolize in: FORT-validator-1.2.0/ >>> Source prepared. alarig@pikachu ~ % ls -lhd /var/tmp/portage/net-misc/FORT-validator-1.2.0/ drwxr-xr-x 6 alarig portage 4.0K Mar 19 08:38 /var/tmp/portage/net-misc/FORT-validator-1.2.0/ -- Alarig
