Bug 663706

Summary:	app-portage/euses-2.5.9 cannot obtain $PORTDIR from portageq
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Viktor Levin <viklevin2>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	bkohler, esigra, kingjon3377, viklevin2
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	546210

Description Viktor Levin 2018-08-15 17:58:44 UTC

If I add PORTDIR="/usr/portage" to /etc/portage/make.conf, euses works properly. But if I remove this line, euses doesn't work:

$ euses vdpau
PORTDIR not found

app-portage/euses-2.5.9 cannot obtain $PORTDIR from portageq. But $PORTDIR in make.conf is obsolete and deprecated.

Comment 1 Viktor Levin 2018-08-15 18:00:48 UTC

This bug also blocks bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/662982

Comment 2 Viktor Levin 2019-03-19 02:00:24 UTC

Any progress here?

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-03-19 07:40:37 UTC

euses checks for an environment variable PORTDIR. Does this help?

Comment 4 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2019-09-23 16:09:40 UTC

This tool needs to be updated to not depend on the deprecated PORTDIR variable

Comment 5 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2019-09-24 02:32:09 UTC

Since euses is written in C language, you can implement similar solution as was done in portage-utils project, i.e. using dev-libs/iniparser to parse repos.conf:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage-utils.git/log/?qt=grep&q=repos.conf