| Summary: | sys-apps/portage: setting BUILD_PREFIX does not work | ||
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| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Stephan Springer <Gentoo-bugs> |
| Component: | Core | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | InVCS |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 2.1 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 210077, 216231 | ||
Thanks, I've removed it from the man page for the time being since it's not intended to be configurable. This is released in 2.2_rc7. |
The man-page make.conf(5) as well as several places in the Wiki and the online documentation state that I can set BUILD_PREFIX to some directory to override the default "${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/portage". But that doesn't work, such a setting is simply ignored, regardless of whether I set it in /etc/make.conf or in the environment. All I can do is change PORTAGE_TMPDIR, but that changes more than I want. I guess the reason is that the value is just hardcoded in line 3919 of /usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage.py. So either fix it there or change all the documentaion, please. I'm currently using sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 on amd64.