Re: epsilon plugin cache regen & gentoo portage.

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* [email protected] <[email protected]> [2009-02-11 11:27:20 -0000]:

> On 09:09 am, [email protected] wrote:
> >i was updating the divmod packages in gentoo's portage tree and had=20
> >some
> >problems with the automatic plugin cache update. (the problem was with
> >gentoo's sandbox which is the only directory which is not read-only
> >during compile/install phase. all other attempted write ops cause a
> >sandbox violation .. fyi ;))
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> I don't understand this; having not used gentoo, I don't understand why=
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> installation would not allow you to install files.

As I understand it (I don't know much about Gentoo, just extrapolating
=66rom distro packaging in general, and Thomas's other comments), the
installation is done into a "sandbox" area, not directly into /; this
works fine, except that the setup tries to update the global plugin
cache, which doesn't work since the installation process doesn't have
write access to /, only to the sandbox area.

> setuphelper in epsilon is really just helping you to do the "right=20
> thing" as far as installing a program that uses Twisted plugins.  The=20
> underlying issue is Twisted's plugin-cache generation.

Presumably the Gentoo installation process would manually regenerate the
plugin cache once the files have been installed into the actual system.
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