Nope, just plain emerge as root.
> On 9/02/2021, at 11:55, Aisha Tammy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Are you installing/building with the ebuild command and then merging with
> sudo or
> something similar?
> That may be one reason something like this is happening.
>
> On 2/8/21 5:28 PM, François Bissey wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I discovered an issue in a couple of packages for which sage-on-gentoo
>> provides ebuilds.
>> Some packages install data directly from a tar command. By that I mean
>> Makefile.am will a line like
>> cd $(DESTDIR)$(dbdir) && tar xf $(dist_db_DATA) && rm $(dist_db_DATA)
>>
>> From a real Makefile at
>> https://github.com/sagemath/p_group_cohomology/blob/master/present/Makefile.am
>>
>> I looks innocuous until you realise it has some funny effects on ownership.
>> fbissey@moonloop ~ $ ll /usr/share/pGroupCohomology/
>> total 1.1M
>> drwxr-xr-x 270 root root 12K Feb 3 21:55 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 319 root root 12K Feb 3 21:55 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 fbissey fbissey 4.0K Feb 9 10:46 64gp1
>> drwxr-xr-x 4 fbissey fbissey 4.0K Feb 9 10:46 64gp10
>> drwxr-xr-x 4 fbissey fbissey 4.0K Feb 9 10:46 64gp100
>> drwxr-xr-x 4 fbissey fbissey 4.0K Feb 9 10:46 64gp101
>> drwxr-xr-x 4 fbissey fbissey 4.0K Feb 9 10:46 64gp102
>>
>> the files in the tarball are owned by user/group 1001:1001
>> and on my system it is my personal user.
>> sci-mathematics/singular and that may include the version in the main tree,
>> would have to check, install its documentation from a tarball as well
>> fbissey@moonloop ~ $ ll /usr/share/doc/singular-4.1.1_p2-r3/
>> total 216K
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 2345 uucp 4.0K Nov 10 10:49 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 1361 root root 64K Feb 9 10:39 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 2345 uucp 128K Nov 10 10:49 html
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Nov 10 10:48 README.bz2
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 517 Nov 10 10:48 README.md.bz2
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 585 Nov 10 10:48 README.pkg.bz2
>> fbissey@moonloop ~ $ ll /usr/share/doc/singular-4.1.1_p2-r3/html
>> total 30M
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 2345 uucp 128K Nov 10 10:49 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 2345 uucp 4.0K Nov 10 10:49 ..
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 2345 uucp 915 Feb 14 2018 a_begin.gif
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 2345 uucp 909 Feb 14 2018 a_begin_na.gif
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 2345 uucp 927 Feb 14 2018 a_document.gif
>>
>> I tried to use fowners inside the ebuild, but it only fixes file ownership,
>> folders are not touched. I tried to insert “—no-same-owner” in the call to
>> tar
>> and that didn’t really help either. At best, I am expecting ownership to
>> change
>> to portage:portage.
>>
>> Has anyone dealt with something like this before? Apart from “recursively”
>> scripting install in the make file is there anything simple I could do?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> François
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