Bug 584064

Summary:	sys-apps/portage-2.2.28: DISTDIR missing when printing manual fetch instructions
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Christopher Head <bugs>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christopher Head 2016-05-25 05:18:36 UTC

If a package has RESTRICT=fetch, the instructions typically tell me to go off and download the files, then put them into $DISTDIR.

Unfortunately, if this happens during --ask or --pretend, $DISTDIR might not exist! It’s only created when Portage starts actually fetching files.

This is reasonably trivial to work around (just create $DISTDIR myself), but it would be nice if Portage created it for me before telling me to put things in it (consider, for example, that I might create it with the wrong permissions if I do it myself).