448014 – app-portage/portage-utils: env: do not work if PORTDIR includes arbitrary variables

Bug 448014 - app-portage/portage-utils: env: do not work if PORTDIR includes arbitrary variables

Summary: app-portage/portage-utils: env: do not work if PORTDIR includes arbitrary var...

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Third-Party Tools (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage Utils Team

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Reported:	2012-12-20 21:10 UTC by Justin Lecher (RETIRED)
Modified:	2015-06-03 15:45 UTC (History)
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Description Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-20 21:10:41 UTC

After recent discusion I tryed to move my installation around and set this in make.conf

PORTROOT="/var/cache/portage"
PORTDIR="${PORTROOT}/tree"

now q* fails

$ qgrep foo
grep: chdir to PORTDIR '/tree' failed: No such file or directory

Comment 1 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-21 15:23:51 UTC

You have the powers to assign bugs. Please use them :)

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-12-21 17:31:07 UTC

this is by design.  portage-utils does not track all variables, just the ones it cares about.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-06-03 15:45:25 UTC

since PORTDIR is no longer supported (moving to repos.conf via bug 540620), i'm not going to spend time on this.