Bug 546210 – [TRACKER] deprecated PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY usage

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: CONFIRMED ---

[Description Zac Medico 2015-04-10 19:20:56 UTC]

Packages need to migrate away from reliance on the PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY variables, since they are deprecated in favor of repos.conf.

[Comment 1 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2015-04-14 21:30:06 UTC]

Can we document the best portageq commands for replacement?

The best I can tell is:

PORTDIR: 
portageq get_repo_path / $(portageq repositories_configuration / | grep main-repo | awk '{print $3}')

PORTDIR_OVERLAY: 
portageq get_repo_path / $(portageq get_repos /) 
with the caveat that the main repo path is included as well

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2015-04-14 23:47:49 UTC]

(In reply to Paul Varner from comment #1)
> PORTDIR: 
> portageq get_repo_path / $(portageq repositories_configuration / | grep
> main-repo | awk '{print $3}')

It might be better if we don't encourage the notion of a "main-repo" because it could be ambiguous (maybe there are multiple repos with all the attributes of a "main-repo"). Can whatever code you were thinking would need this be adjusted to somehow handle this sort of ambiguity?

> PORTDIR_OVERLAY: 
> portageq get_repo_path / $(portageq get_repos /) 
> with the caveat that the main repo path is included as well

Inclusion of the main repo isn't really a caveat if you are handling the ambiguous case as discussed above.

[Comment 3 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2015-04-17 18:29:49 UTC]

main-repo attribute is deprecated...

[Comment 4 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2015-04-23 21:29:48 UTC]

Okay, given that we are moving to just a collection of repositories, I have updated euse in git to just search through all repositories for the information and have removed the concepts of PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY.  Thanks for the guidance.