Bug 114946 – app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r4 fails to build if $ROOT is set

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Philippe Troin 2005-12-08 19:09:19 UTC]

The culprit is this stanza in pkg_postinst():

        if [ -x "/usr/bin/install-catalog" ] && [ "$ROOT" = "/" ]
        then
                einfo "Installing Catalogs..."
                ...
        else
                ewarn "install-catalog not found! Something went wrong!"
                die
        fi

[Comment 1 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) 2006-01-13 01:48:31 UTC]

*** Bug 116757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) 2006-01-14 06:06:05 UTC]

This required some changes in sgml-common's ebuild and the install-catalog script, which hopefully take into account multiple $ROOT values correctly now. Please re-sync your trees and re-emerge sgml-common to test it. Thanks.

agaffney,
I would be glad to hear how it goes in your case using the installer.

[Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-01-17 12:53:05 UTC]

I ended up switching to chroot'ing before running each 'ebuild' step simply because I figured I would run into this problem with many other packages. I'd rather take the slight speed hit of chroot'ing 4 times per package than filing a ton of bugs for proper ROOT support :P