None. Portage -r9 will include a patch that fixes this.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:24:18PM -0500, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> Dangers security risks doing this??
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Monday March 10 2003 1:18 pm, Mike Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:11, Alain Penders wrote:
> > > Portage tries to chown that directory to root, so if distfiles is mounted
> > > such that creating root files/dirs isn't allowed, portage will fail.
> > > That might be the difference between your machines.... check for
> > > differences between the /etc/fstab files.
> > >
> > > If that doesn't help, you could try deleting
> > > /usr/portage/distfiles/cvs-src, and then run portage again (as root).
> >
> > Or, comment out these 4 lines in
> > /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py
> >
> > # os.chown(settings["DISTDIR"]+"/cvs-src",0,portage_gid)
> > # os.chmod(settings["DISTDIR"]+"/cvs-src",06770)
> > # spawn("chgrp -R "+str(portage_gid)+"
> > "+settings["DISTDIR"]+"/cvs-src", free=1)
> > # spawn("chmod -R g+rw "+settings["DISTDIR"]+"/cvs-src", free=1)
>
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