Bug 586416 (filesdir-bad-scope)

Summary:	[TRACKER] FILESDIR accesses in global scope or pkg_* functions
Product:	Quality Assurance	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Trackers	Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	kumba, sam
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152474
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	586418, 586420, 586422, 586424, 610752, 612838, 612840, 612844, 612848, 772383, 804321
Bug Blocks:	775191

Description Michał Górny archtester

2016-06-19 20:27:04 UTC

Per PMS 11.1 [1, note: wording improved in git master] the directory pointed by FILESDIR must not be accessed from global scope of an ebuild and in pkg_* functions. The value of this variable is only provided for setting variables such as PATCHES that are used later in src_* phases.

[1]:https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/latest/pms.html#x1-11800011.1