On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:01:44 +0100 Alexander Mieland
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| well, do you have a solution for this?

Well, first up, you don't stick ebuilds in the tree until *after* you
come up with a sane solution. Second, you don't stick ebuilds in the
tree straight to stable. Not that this is entirely your fault -- the
person doing the commits should have known better...

| See, basc, the client of gentoo-stats.org, needs read-access 
| on /var/log/emerge.log to get the average mergetime of gcc.
| But unfortunately, the /var/log/emerge.log only has read-access for
| root and group portage. Others don't have any rights on it.
| I really can't understand this, because every user can get information
| of every package, which is installed (and the whole package-list) with
| 
| `qpkg` without to be root or in the portage group.
| So why is /var/log/emerge.log restricted so hard?
| 
| Okay, so how to do this then?

Require that the user running the client is in the portage group.

| > Oh, and even if it would be ok it would still be broken as $ROOT is
| > missing.
| 
| yeah, you're right, I've forgotten this, because it also works without
| $ROOT.

I think you didn't understand that remark.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
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