Bug 570758 – Add a DISTDIR_FETCH variable and location for fetch restricted packages

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

[Description Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) 2016-01-03 17:00:05 UTC]

Right now all downloads have to be in DISTDIR. 
Fetch restricted packages need to be downloaded and moved to DISTDIR.

With a new location for fetch-restriced packages (sth like DISTDIR_FETCH, which by default points to DISTDIR), I'd like to allow a user to download files and put them in there.
Portage should look up files like this:
always DISTDIR.
if package is fetch restricted:
also DISTDIR_FETCH

This would enable several things:
- shared DISTDIR_FETCH in networked environments with multiple gentoo machines (if you for some reason don't want share the complete distfiles)
- easier cleanup of DISTDIR (if you wanna free up space but don't wanna delete those 10-20 fetch restriced files)
- more restricted access control to DISTDIR (usually a non-root user downloads the fetch-restriced file and moves it to DISTDIR); instead you could grant a user access to DISTDIR_FETCH

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2016-01-04 03:48:59 UTC]

Maybe just use PORTAGE_RO_DISTDIRS for this? You can list as many directories as you want in the PORTAGE_RO_DISTDIRS variable.