Bug 258111

Summary:	media-tv/wis-go7007 abusing ${ROOT}
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) <bangert>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Television related Applications in Gentoo's Portage <media-tv>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	media-tv, pierre42d
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	258096
Attachments:	fix typo

Description Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-08 12:36:19 UTC

Some notes on ROOT:

* The idea behind ROOT is that one can build a system with ROOT=/somewhere and
then chroot into it or tar up /somewhere as a system image. It is not designed
to allow the user to run /somewhere/usr/bin/foo.

* ROOT can't be used correctly in src_*, since ROOT might be different when
merging a binary package. For example, a binary package might be built with
ROOT=/ and then installed onto a system using ROOT=/somewhere.

* ROOT isn't used for library dependencies. When building, libraries, headers
etc. on / have to be used. Cross-compiling etc is done by configuring the
toolchain correctly, not by hacking ebuilds in a way that breaks binary
packages.

See also the discussion on bug #167285 for more info.

Comment 1 Sławomir Nizio 2011-09-22 18:39:29 UTC

This seems to be fixed now.

Comment 2 Sławomir Nizio 2011-09-22 19:00:35 UTC

Created attachment 287435 [details]
fix typo

There's a typo (insinto"blah....", so space).
It's quick to fix and somewhat related to this bug so I'll post it here.

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-04-29 12:52:50 UTC

+  29 Apr 2012; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wis-go7007-0.9.8-r3.ebuild:
+  Fix typo, bug #258111#c2.
+