After a hiatus I am trying to create my own ebuild repository again. I need a way to test the separate steps (fetch, prepare, comiple, install etc.) and I would like to do all of them as a regular user (not root, not portage). I tried what I thought was the most natural attempt - run the ebuild program under fakeroot, but it still breaks trying to change permissions of things in PORTAGE_TMPDIR (of course override the value of this variable). I don't understand this - it looks just like what fakeroot was intended to help with? Anyway, I'm not married to fakeroot, just looking for a way to do these test runs.
I remember that I could do this the first time, a couple of years ago. But I don't remember how :-( -- Ian
