Bug 466922 – About needing to set PORTDIR_OVERLAY to the CVS directory

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Documentation

[Description Pacho Ramos 2013-04-23 20:21:16 UTC]

I see the following in:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap4

(Make sure PORTDIR_OVERLAY is set to the CVS directory when creating manifests.)

But I don't have it set to CVS directory and never hit any problem :O, maybe repoman is doing some "magic" to not need that

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-04-23 20:26:35 UTC]

maybe your cvs tree is in PORTDIR?

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2013-04-23 20:42:38 UTC]

I don't set PORTDIR in my make.conf

[Comment 3 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-04-23 20:44:11 UTC]

cc'ing portage people to tell us if PORTDIR_OVERLAY or PORTDIR is needed for repoman to work properly.

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2013-04-23 20:49:37 UTC]

No, not needed. It's handled automatically by repoman.

[Comment 5 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-05-07 09:04:26 UTC]

ok thanks i will take care of that

[Comment 6 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-05-10 19:11:26 UTC]

http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-introduction-new-devs.xml?r1=1.17&r2=1.18