522636 – emerge ignores the value of PORTDIR

Bug 522636 - emerge ignores the value of PORTDIR

Summary: emerge ignores the value of PORTDIR

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2014-09-12 10:40 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified:	2014-09-12 11:50 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2014-09-12 10:40:26 UTC

I'm trying to overwrite the value of a variable before launching emerge, so:

willoughby ~ # PKGDIR="" emerge --info | grep PKGDIR
PKGDIR=""

it works.


It does not work while I try with PORTDIR:

willoughby ~ # PORTDIR="/foo" emerge --info | grep PORTDIR
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"



so If I try to do PORTDIR="/foo" emerge --sync, it sync in /usr/portage.

Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2014-09-12 11:50:04 UTC

PORTDIR is deprecated and will be fully unsupported in the future.

As documented in `man portage`:
"repos.conf
    Specifies site-specific repository configuration information.
    Configuration specified in repos.conf can be overriden by
    PORTAGE_REPOSITORIES environmental variable, which has the same format
    as repos.conf."


Example usage:

PORTAGE_REPOSITORIES=$'[gentoo]\nlocation = /foo\nsync-type = rsync\nsync-uri = rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage' emerge --sync