emerge fails on wheelgid

I side-stepped this issue and just hard-coded the
portage_uid and
portage_gid to my user and group IDs obtained from our
distrubuted
authentication system.

If there is a more permanent / better way to fix this,
please let me know.

Thanks!!

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:10:48 -0500, Marshall McMullen
<marshallzentire.com> wrote:
> Well, I tried manually overriding the file in
question:
> 
> $EPREFIX/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/data.py line 70
and setting the
> wheelgid explicitly, and it fails now with:
> 
> 
> portage: mdmcmull user or group missing. Please update
baselayout
>          and merge portage user(250) and group(250)
into your passwd
>          and group files. Non-root compilation is
disabled until then.
> 
> Is there any way around this other than adding my
uid/gid to /etc/passwd
> and /etc/group ??
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:06:04 -0500, Marshall McMullen
> <marshall.mcmullengmail.com> wrote:
>> So, still trying to get this working....
>>
>> Looks like this is set up in
$EPREFIX/usr/lib/portage/const_autotool.py,
>> and is setting rootuid to my  user id, and wheelgid
is set to my group
> id.
>> Problem is that the user and group ids in this case
don't exist in the
>> /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, as we have some
distributed
>> authentication on this system.  Any ideas how to
get around this ?
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:55:12 -0500, Marshall
McMullen
>> <marshallzentire.com> wrote:
>>> I'm trying to get prefixed portage set up on a
new AIX 5.3 box, but it
>>> fails right off the bat with this following
error:
>>>
>>> $ emerge --oneshot sed
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File
"/gsa/ausgsa/home/m/d/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/bin/emerge&
quot;, line
> 12,
>>> in
>>> ?
>>>     from emerge import *
>>>   File
>>>
>>
>
"/gsa/ausgsa-h2/00/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/portage/py
m/emerge/__init__.py",
>>> line 27, in ?
>>>     import portage
>>>   File
>>>
>>
>
"/gsa/ausgsa-h2/00/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/portage/py
m/portage/__init__.py",
>>> line 77, in ?
>>>     from portage.data import ostype, lchown,
userland, secpass, uid,
>>> wheelgid, 
>>>   File
>>>
>>
>
"/gsa/ausgsa-h2/00/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/portage/py
m/portage/data.py",
>>> line 70, in ?
>>>     wheelgroup=grp.getgrgid(wheelgid)[0]
>>> KeyError: 'getgrgid(): gid not found: 481958'
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen this problem before?

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On 18-07-2007 12:22:12 -0500, Marshall McMullen wrote:
> 
> I side-stepped this issue and just hard-coded the
portage_uid and
> portage_gid to my user and group IDs obtained from our
distrubuted
> authentication system.
> 
> If there is a more permanent / better way to fix this,
please let me know.

Python should be able to get the ids from your
ldap/whatever/distributed/thinghy, because it just does a
call to the
C-functions which do this as well.  (Hence id working...)

See the other reply.  Thanks for reporting!

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