Bug 731736

Summary:	emerge: an option to wipe PORTAGE_TMPDIR before emerge starts
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=937037
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2020-07-08 13:44:23 UTC

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this can be useful to me in tinderbox work

Just FTR, if the option should do its job before emerge starts, then fine. If the option should do its job before do anything with each ebuild (so done multiple times when e.g. emerge is emerging 10 packages) it should not be compatible with -j

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2020-07-08 19:21:41 UTC

We have FEATURES=fail-clean which is intended for a similar type of scenario. I guess you don't want to use FEATURES=fail-clean because you need to collect some information from PORTAGE_TMPDIR after a build failure?  If so, maybe you could automate that by using register_die_hook in /etc/portage/bashrc to register a function to do whatever it is that you need to do.