83087 – portage should create /var/lib/portage

Bug 83087 - portage should create /var/lib/portage

Summary: portage should create /var/lib/portage

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High major
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2005-02-23 10:18 UTC by Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED)
Modified:	2005-07-14 06:58 UTC (History)
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Description Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-23 10:18:13 UTC

when running something like 'ROOT=/build/target1 emerge uclibc baselayout-lite busybox' and when /build/target1 is empty, portage creates several directories like /var/cache, etc. however it fails to create /var/lib/portage (actually, ${ROOT}/var/lib/portage).

without this dir, the world file never gets created.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-02-23 10:21:12 UTC

there is code to create it (in portage.py) but it seems there's a few
codepaths that can execute w/out hitting the /var/lib/portage creation code

Comment 2 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-14 05:48:14 UTC

Fixed on or before 2.0.51.22-r1

Comment 3 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-14 06:58:51 UTC

Looking through the batch of bugs, I'm not sure that some of these are 
actually fixed in stable. Others, the requirements have possibly changed after 
the initial fix was committed. 
 
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