I have /usr/portage/distfiles nfs shared, and emerge has broken because of this;
>>> Emerging (1 of 3) net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.6-r3::gentoo * Fetching files in the background. * To view fetch progress, run in another terminal: * tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log bash: /usr/portage/distfiles/.__portage_test_write__: Is a directory rm: cannot remove '/usr/portage/distfiles/.__portage_test_write__': Is a directory distfiles # ls -la total 756 drwxrwxr-x 2 root portage 188416 Oct 17 10:30 . drwxr-xr-x 175 portage portage 4096 Mar 24 2017 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 root portage 188416 Oct 17 10:30 .pinentry-1.0.0.tar.bz2.portage_lockfile drwxrwxr-x 2 root portage 188416 Oct 17 10:30 .__portage_test_write__ drwxrwxr-x 2 root portage 188416 Oct 17 10:30 .wpa_supplicant-2.6.tar.gz.portage_lockfile distfiles # touch test distfiles # ls -l total 188 drwxrwxr-x 2 root portage 188416 Oct 17 10:31 test distfiles # file * test: directory distfiles # ls * ls: reading directory 'test': Not a directory distfiles # On the server they show up as files to both ls and file, so it appears to be an NFS bug. Gentoo-sources 4.13.7 has the issue but 4.13.5 is ok.
