Since I emerged sys-apps/portage-2.1.11.10, all invocations of euses fail with "PORTDIR not found". Invocing euses with "PORTDIR=... euses ..." works.
Which version of euses?
2.5.8
Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment.
Portage 2.1.11.10 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r2, 3.5.1-hardened x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.5.1-hardened-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_Q_820_@_1.73GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.8-r3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.10.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.12.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22.90 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.5 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r2 Repositories: gentoo xfce-dev ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 AdobeFlash-10.3 Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -maccumulate-outgoing-args -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -maccumulate-outgoing-args -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n --with-bdeps=y" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles keeptemp keepwork news noclean parallel-fetch parse-eapi-ebuild-head protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo http://gentoo.inode.at http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_DE.iso885915" LC_ALL="en_DE.iso885915" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/xfce-dev" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="64bit X a52 aac alsa amd64 apng applet archive ass bogofilter bzip2 cairo cdda cdparanoia cli contrast cups curl cxx dbus dconf demosaic detex devfs-compat dga divx dot dri dts dvd dvdnav dvdr dvi dvipdfm encode epspdf exif expat extra faad ffmpeg flac fontconfig foomaticdb fts3 g3dvl gallium gbm gif gimp glib glibc-omitfp gmp graphics gs gstreamer gtk gudev htmlreport iconv imagemagick inotify jbig jpeg jpeg2k kpathsea lasi latex latex3 lcdfilter lcms lensfun libkms libnotify libsamplerate libwww lightning llvm-gcc lua lzma lzo mad metric midi mmap mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mta mudflap natspec ncat ncurses ndiff nntp nping nptl nsplugin ogg oldnet openmp openvg pam pango pax_kernel pcre pdf pic plugins png postproc postscript ppds pppd pstricks pth quicktime r600-llvm-compiler rar raw readline realmedia rle rpc rtc rule_generator sasl scanner schroedinger secure-delete session smp sndfile sound sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssh ssl ssse3 svg symlink system-sqlite t1lib theora threads thunar tiff tremor truetype udev unlock-notify usb utils vaapi vim-with-x vnc vorbis vpx webp wmf wmp x264 xa xcb xcomposite xmp xorg xpm xrandr xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x 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itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" SANE_BACKENDS="epson" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon r600" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
The change causing the trouble was portage, not euses. The same euses version worked with the previous portage version (that's why I've put portage first in the summary).
(In reply to comment #5) > The change causing the trouble was portage, not euses. > The same euses version worked with the previous portage version > (that's why I've put portage first in the summary). euses doesn't use anything sys-apps/portage installs, but it does expect this shell script to succeed: ( for file in make.globals make.conf portage/make.conf; do [ -f /etc/$file ] && . /etc/$file done;printf "%s" "${PORTDIR}"; ) Please run that and paste the output in a comment.
The statement does not produce any output. Problem found, it *is* the fault of portage: * Both make.conf files do not contain any PORTDIR, at least in my installation. * /etc/make.globals was a symlink created and owned by portage to /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals, and this file defined PORTDIR. * The /etc/make.globals symlink was removed from portage 2.1.11.9 to .10 .
It's not anybody's fault if the removal from make.globals/make.conf is by design, and if tools are now expected to resolve this by setting their own defaults.
I think the portage team should provide a single, stable and well-documented way for all the tools to access portage variables and settings, and the tools should use that interface (and not some home-grown method) to access these values.
There is such an interface: "portageq portdir" (short for "portageq envvar PORTDIR"), but since that takes half a second to return on my *fastest* system, and since euses is supposed to be faster than that, I have never seen any use for the canonical way of doing things unless it would become significantly faster.
time portageq portdir /usr/portage real 0m0.287s user 0m0.270s sys 0m0.010s Very fast notebook with SSD, second attempt (first one was even slower). Not too impressive. Perhaps a performance bug against portageq should be opened? PORTDIR ist simple and used often, there should be a faster "official" method to get it.
(In reply to comment #11) > Perhaps a performance bug against portageq should be opened? > > PORTDIR ist simple and used often, there should be a faster "official" method > to get it. It's "slow" because all the variables are accessed by the config object which parses the entire profile when it is instantiated. It could be optimized by categorizing the variables into profile-dependent and profile-independent sets, and allowing the profile-independent variables to be accessed without loading the profile. Bug #418475, comment #6 explains some interactions between some special variables and the profile. Most variables can be set in the profile, by PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY specifically cannot, since bug #414961.
I don't think portageq performance will ever be as fast or even get close to simply parsing the correct files (or assume a default when unset). Just keeping up with the files du jour would be enough for me, so now I just need to come up with a way to fix the euses build system to patch ${prefix}/${datarootdir}/${PN}/config/make.globals into the shell script in the C source code.
Please try euses 2.5.9 and see if it fixes your problem.
2.5.9 works for me. Thanks!
Is there a tracker bug for >sys-apps/portage-2.1.11.10 so we know when to go stable?
Bug #431026 is the tracker. Current stable versions of portage also install /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals, so you can stabilize the new euses earlier if you want.
