Bug 511806 – sys-apps/portage-2.2.10: Can't evaluate PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT in make.conf

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Kobboi 2014-05-29 18:18:30 UTC]

I would like to set certain variables in make.conf (in my case, PKGDIR) to something relative to PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT.

Unfortunately, PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT seems to evaluate to "" when

- I call emerge with the --config-root command line option

- I set PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT as an environment variable when calling emerge (without using --config-root)

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Joakim Tjernlund 2015-03-03 20:39:59 UTC]

Is this still a problem?
I think atleast --config-root should work.
Does --root work for you?

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2015-03-03 21:02:24 UTC]

There's a patch in the following branch:

    https://github.com/zmedico/portage/tree/bug_511806

I've posted it for review here:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/5298

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2015-03-03 21:29:12 UTC]

This is in the master branch now:

https://github.com/gentoo/portage/commit/20a48be6f4c6779e7d89aef2a64c008ec70dcc14

[Comment 4 Joakim Tjernlund 2015-03-03 22:32:57 UTC]

(In reply to Zac Medico from comment #3)
> This is in the master branch now:
> 
> https://github.com/gentoo/portage/commit/
> 20a48be6f4c6779e7d89aef2a64c008ec70dcc14

That was fast:) Perhaps you can have a look at
  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492854
too?

[Comment 5 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) 2015-03-04 21:49:10 UTC]

Released in portage-2.2.18