64123 – emerge unmerge does not respect ROOT variable

Bug 64123 - emerge unmerge does not respect ROOT variable

Summary: emerge unmerge does not respect ROOT variable

Status:	VERIFIED NEEDINFO

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High major
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2004-09-15 05:26 UTC by Jeroen Asselman
Modified:	2007-01-11 11:01 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Jeroen Asselman 2004-09-15 05:26:36 UTC

I emerged a couple of packages with the ROOT set to /mnt/image
then I decided I wanted to remove an installed package from /mnt/image (bootsplash)but it gives me it is not installed.
emerge -s bootsplash also shows as not installed. emerge -vp bootsplash shows as not installed as well.
But an  emerge -vp splashutils  is blocked due to installed bootsplash. Which is correct because it is actually installed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. export ROOT=/mnt/image
2. emerge bootsplash
3. emerge unmerge bootsplash
4. emerge splashutils
Actual Results:  
splashutils is blocked, and the unmerge did not complete.

Expected Results:  
Unmerge bootsplash and emerge splashutils

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-15 16:44:15 UTC

51_rc1

Comment 2 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-15 16:52:09 UTC

oops. Wrong bug.

As a note... This was never an intended functionality.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-05 07:47:15 UTC

you neglected to provide `emerge info` like the bug report page said to

also, attach the output of `tree /mnt/image/var/db/pkg`

Comment 4 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-11 11:01:08 UTC

Closing due to old age