Bug 147427

Summary:	$ROOT must be absolute
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Brad Plant <bplant>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	radek
Priority:	High	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	147007

Description Brad Plant 2006-09-13 01:58:40 UTC

When setting the $ROOT variable (at least when using binary packages), the path must be absolute. The man page for emerge doesn't state that this is the case.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2006-09-15 20:31:21 UTC

This has been released in 2.1.2_pre1.