Tow strange things: 1.) "autounmasking" with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS does not work in connection with --root 2.) News item appear out of nowhere with --root. sol fauli # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="**" emerge grub -av These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] media-fonts/unifont-5.1.20080914 USE="X" 8,351 kB [ebuild N ] dev-scheme/guile-1.8.8 USE="deprecated emacs nls regex threads -debug -debug-freelist -debug-malloc -discouraged -elisp -networking" 3,864 kB [ebuild N ] sys-devel/autogen-5.11.5 1,016 kB [ebuild U ] sys-boot/grub-9999 [0.97-r10] USE="custom-cflags truetype%* -debug% -multislot% -static (-ncurses%*) (-netboot%)" 0 kB Total: 4 packages (1 upgrade, 3 new), Size of downloads: 13,230 kB Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] ^C Exiting on signal 2 sol fauli # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="**" emerge grub -av --root=/tmp/target * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/autogen-5.10" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-devel/autogen-5.11.5 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - sys-devel/autogen-5.11.4 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - sys-devel/autogen-5.11.3 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - sys-devel/autogen-5.11.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - sys-devel/autogen-5.10.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - sys-devel/autogen-5.10.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) (dependency required by "sys-boot/grub-9999" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "grub" [argument]) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. sol fauli # eselect news read No news is good news.
Portage 2.1.9.35 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_BE-2400-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:30:22 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.7.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA AdobeFlash-10 AdobeFlash-10.1 dlj-1.1" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -msse3" 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sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
(In reply to comment #0) > 1.) "autounmasking" with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS does not work in connection with > --root This due to environment isolation between the host and target roots. This is necessary since the ability to pass in variables via the calling environment tends to be heavily relied upon by embedded users, and in many cases these variables can cause damage if applied to the host root. So, most variables from the calling environment (aside from a small whitelisted group) are applied only to the target root. Since ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is not in the existing whitelist, it is only applied to the target root and you end up with masking messages from the host root. I suppose we can add ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to the whitelist (in case you wonder, the whitelist happens to be located inside the portage.create_trees() function). If you're curious, you can look in $PORTDIR/profiles/embedded to see the minimal embedded profile which is incomplete unless lots of variables are provided via the calling environment. > 2.) News item appear out of nowhere with --root. This is because the list of read news items is stored in $ROOT/var/lib/gentoo/news/, so setting $ROOT via --root means that suddenly you have unread news items. I'm not sure what to do about this offhand, but at least we probably want to check if the eselect news module has support for $ROOT so that it's possible to read the items and/or mark them as read.
Something along the lines crept along when I did further testing. Thanks.
