Re: installation from my current linux system

On Sunday 18 August 2002 14:22, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems installing using the tarballs (tried stages 2 and 3 of
> both 1.2 and 1.4 ) when I try to emerge anything - I'm still in chroot - I
> get the same type of error.
>
> Here's an example:
>
> weed / # emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
>
> >>> emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r7 to /

----------------------- snip -------------------------------------

> --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
> ---------------------------
> LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r7-1737.log"
>
> open_wr:   /root/tmp/ppSZhFCz
> unlink:    /root/tmp/ppSZhFCz
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----- !!! emerge aborting on
> /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r7.ebuild .
>
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers
>
> Ron


I've found the problem \o/

I needed to set PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/root/tmp 

I don't know why.

I originally set PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp but that gave me the same error

Thanks go to Naan Yaar in the gentoo forums, his second post in this thread 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=9385&highlight=access+denied pointed 
me to the required reading

Ron