Bug 563836

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: support substitution of variables like ROOT and PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT in repos.conf
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Zac Medico <zmedico>
Component:	Core - Configuration	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298141
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	137867, 240187

Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2015-10-23 01:30:53 UTC

This makes it possible to sync repositories inside $ROOT.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2015-10-23 01:42:26 UTC

There's a patch in the following branch:

https://github.com/zmedico/portage/tree/bug_563836

I've posted it for review here:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/f2b7fbf4f426c3adc1ca454463054f90

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2015-10-28 16:08:20 UTC

This is in the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=28aaa75494f32c7a8b57d36c226dd37f3b9dcff9

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2016-03-14 02:53:34 UTC

Fixed in 2.2.24.