612966 – [Tracker] Ebuilds accessing DISTDIR in pkg_* phases

Bug 612966 - [Tracker] Ebuilds accessing DISTDIR in pkg_* phases

Summary: [Tracker] Ebuilds accessing DISTDIR in pkg_* phases

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal QA (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team

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Keywords:	Tracker

Depends on:	612896 612900 612968 612970
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Reported:	2017-03-18 06:22 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified:	2020-03-29 18:37 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2017-03-18 06:22:06 UTC

According to PMS, DISTDIR is not legal in pkg_* phases:
https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-11800011.1

Furthermore, it is not guaranteed to point to the original DISTDIR which is assigned in make.conf, but the package manager can use a temporary "shadow" directory instead.

(The latter becomes important for ebuilds using a path in DISTDIR to assign the PATCHES variable in global scope, in order to use default_src_prepare patching in EAPI 6.)