Bug 26979 – ebuilds that install into HTTP_ROOT such as squirrelmail and gallery dont detect a non-standard root

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bill Kenworthy 2003-08-20 05:00:10 UTC]

ebuilds that install into HTTP_ROOT such as squirrelmail and gallery dont detect
a non-standard root.  This creates problems with updates and tracking if you
miss editing the ebuild first.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
That ebuilds either detect HTTP_ROOT directly (best I think), or honour a
"FEATURE" or /etc/conf.d/apache setting.

May be other applications that would benefit from this.  Not really and
ehancement, but a request to fix a shortcoming of the present design.

[Comment 1 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-08-20 10:33:43 UTC]

We agree with this somewhat.  On the one hand it'd be nifty to have
the filesystem locations dynamically computed.  On the other hand
.tbz2 packages will break with this approach unless portage can
be upgraded to dynamically handle this situation before merging
the package to the live / partition.

Let's see where the webapp eclass features get us.

[Comment 2 Robin Johnson 2003-08-20 10:56:37 UTC]

i'm waiting for the GLEP to be acceptted before I code up the application, although I do already have it planned out nicely.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2003-09-26 19:27:51 UTC]

*** Bug 29717 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-09-29 13:57:15 UTC]

closing with bug #29843