Bug 730332

Summary:	add PORTAGE_DBPKGROOT to make /var/db/pkg configurable
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Andreas Steinmetz <ast>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629048
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andreas Steinmetz 2020-07-01 09:58:22 UTC

One can fetch packages for virtual machines using various portage variables with one notable exception:

There seems to be no way to tell portage to use another path instead of /var/db/pkg. Thus one has to bind mount the virtual machine's /var/db/pkg on the host which is error prone.

It would be nice to have an environment variable like PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT which allows to set the patch to /var/db/pkg, a suggestion would be PORTAGE_DBPKGROOT.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2020-07-01 17:29:51 UTC

Using a copy of /var/db/pkg is a clever way to make emerge -f do what you want, but it would be nice to have a more general solution that operates on SRC_URI metadata (bug 629048).