Bug 420505

Summary:	app-portage/g-ctan does not honour PORTDIR
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	sphakka <marcoep>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description sphakka 2012-06-10 15:56:34 UTC

I have a custom PORTDIR in my /etc/make.conf.

# g-ctan -u l3kernel
* Updating ebuild for g-ctan/l3kernel ...
* You have insufficient permissions to access /usr/portage/distfiles or it does not exist.
* Please create it or check the permissions, some path definitions can be altered
* through the /etc/g-ctan/g-ctan.conf file.
* This program should be run as root in most environments.

Indeed /usr/portage/distfiles doesn't exist. However a symlink to the correct location solves the problem... It looks like g-ctan doesn't take into account the PORTDIR variable; if that's not possible, a specific configuration option should be provided.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure a non-standard PORTDIR in /etc/make.conf
2. run 'g-ctan -u'

Actual Results:  
g-ctan doesn't found the portage directory.

Expected Results:  
g-ctan looks into PORTDIR to get the portage directory.

Comment 1 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-11 10:19:35 UTC

Please provide the installed version of g-ctan by commenting
`emerge -pv g-ctan`, thanks.

Comment 2 sphakka 2012-06-11 11:20:25 UTC

app-portage/g-ctan-2011.1

Comment 3 Michał Górny archtester

2016-07-24 10:57:58 UTC

The package has been removed.