Bug 612882 – ebuild-writing/functions/pkg_nofetch references the DISTDIR variable

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Documentation

[Description Ulrich Müller 2017-03-17 10:00:29 UTC]

Created attachment 467290 [details, diff]
Change the pkg_nofetch example and add a note

According to PMS, the DISTDIR variable is not valid in pkg_* phases. In addition, it is not guaranteed to be consistent across the ebuild environment. So the package manager is allowed to (and Portage does in some phases) redefine it to point to a temporary "shadow" instead of the global distfiles directory.

Since I see very little value in explicitly expanding ${DISTDIR} in that einfo message, I think we can simply change it to describe the directory instead.

PMS reference: https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-118002

[Comment 1 Göktürk Yüksek 2017-03-18 16:51:09 UTC]

12:46:44   +gokturk | ulm: ack wrt #612882. In ebuild-writing/variables, we say that ROOT is only allowed in pkg_* phases. maybe we should do something similar for DISTDIR?

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2017-03-18 19:34:57 UTC]

This concerns not only DISTDIR but most of the variables describing a path. See the PMS 11.1 table I cited above.

[Comment 3 Brian Evans (RETIRED) 2019-03-19 18:23:36 UTC]

Committed with id fd5633bbea42e0a0 on Fri Mar 17 10:41:55 2017 +0100