Just a follow-up (although I'm embarrassed to admit it):
Did one last find/grep on group='danielibnzayd' and found the offending line
*I* had put by mistake in make.conf; have removed it and everything is running
smoothly again! Just emerged portage without a hitch.
Thanks for the help, and apologies for the human error....
Daniel
On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:35:16 +0200, Daniel Ibn Zayd wrote:
> From make.globals:
>
> danielibnzayd@boojum /Volumes/GENTOO/etc $ grep danielibnzayd make.globals
> PORTAGE_USER='danielibnzayd'
> PORTAGE_ROOT_USER='danielibnzayd'
> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="danielibnzayd"
> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="danielibnzayd@localhost"
>
>
> danielibnzayd@boojum /Volumes/GENTOO/etc $ grep danielibnzayd
> /Volumes/GENTOO/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/const_autotool.py
> portageuser = "danielibnzayd"
> rootuser = "danielibnzayd"
>
>
> Perhaps it helps to understand that OS X Tiger changed the default
> file permissions such that every user also had a group with the same
> name/# as the user ID. When upgrading to OS X Leopard, this was
> carried over, even though a clean install of Leopard would place
> users in a primary group "staff" with GID 20.
>
> So if I am not mistaken, the error log is showing an attempt to chgrp
> to danielibnzayd which was my former primary group. I've changed all
> of these to "staff/20" now, and have made that change in both places
> you suggested:
>
> # Default portage user/group
> PORTAGE_USER='danielibnzayd'
> PORTAGE_GROUP='staff'
> PORTAGE_ROOT_USER='danielibnzayd'
>
> # Default ownership of installed files.
> PORTAGE_INST_UID="502"
> PORTAGE_INST_GID="20"
>
> and
>
> EPREFIX = "/Volumes/GENTOO"
> SYSCONFDIR = "/Volumes/GENTOO/etc"
> PORTAGE_BASE = "/Volumes/GENTOO/usr/lib/portage"
>
> portagegroup = "staff"
> portageuser = "danielibnzayd"
> rootuser = "danielibnzayd"
> rootuid = 502
> rootgid = 20
>
> PORTAGE_BASH = "/Volumes/GENTOO/bin/bash"
> PORTAGE_MV = "/Volumes/GENTOO/bin/mv"
>
>
>
>
> Thanks very much for your help! I really appreciate it.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:14:14 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
>> On 29-12-2013 15:42:53 +0200, Daniel Ibn Zayd wrote:
>>> Thanks for the quick reply. The changes you recommend get me through
>>> the initial check of dependencies to the emerge, at which point
>>> something else kicks in and is trying to set group permissions
>>> again....here is the run before I ^-C out of it:
>>>
>>> danielibnzayd@boojum /Volumes/GENTOO/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage $
>>> emerge portage
>>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>
>>>>>> Verifying ebuild manifests
>>>
>>>>>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.2.7-r2
>>> * prefix-portage-2.2.7.tar.bz2 SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-)
>>> ... [ ok ]
>>> * chgrp failure ignored with unprivileged user:
>>> * chgrp danielibnzayd
>>> ${EPREFIX}/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.7-r2/temp/eclass-debug.log
>>
>> Do you see danielibnzayd in $EPREFIX/etc/make.globals or
>> $EPREFIX/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/const_autotool.py at this point
>> (grep for it)?
>>
>> Fabian
>
