Bug 73200 – Eclass: eutils.eclass - cdrom_get_cds needs more work

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description André Terpstra 2004-12-03 01:14:54 UTC]

I suggest listing the exact steps for exporting the CD_ROOT variable(s) instead of the somewhat cryptic messages shown now. After some experimentation I found that the syntax is e.g. as follows:

"#! /bin/bash

export CD_ROOT_1=/mnt/WinRead/UT2004/CD1
export CD_ROOT_2=/mnt/WinRead/UT2004/CD2
export CD_ROOT_3=/mnt/WinRead/UT2004/CD3
export CD_ROOT_4=/mnt/WinRead/UT2004/CD4
export CD_ROOT_5=/mnt/WinRead/UT2004/CD5
export CD_ROOT_6=/mnt/WinRead/UT2004/CD6
time emerge --verbose ut2004"


Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-12-03 07:50:27 UTC]

This has nothing to do with ut2004.

Personally, I really don't see the issue.  It reads perfectly fine to me.

[Comment 2 André Terpstra 2004-12-03 12:43:14 UTC]

Soory, but I find that a little arrogant. You're saying that I should not use Gentoo Linux (or at least this ebuild) until I know the exact syntax of the export command? Come on!

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-12-03 14:00:42 UTC]

What?  Where are you reading that?  I said no such thing.  I think you need to step back, relax, go get some coffe, or something.  You're a bit too aggressive on this and really need to think before you respond, otherwise you're going to find a games team that is much liess likely to be interested in your perceived problem.

[Comment 4 André Terpstra 2004-12-03 14:59:59 UTC]

OK if I am the only person that feels there is room for improvement in this respect, you're right. Sorry then for wasting your time.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2004-12-25 23:09:01 UTC]

what more do you want it to say ?

currently it says:

 * If you do not have the CDs, but have the data files
 * mounted somewhere on your filesystem, just export
 * the following variables so they point to the right place:
 *  CD_ROOT_1 CD_ROOT_2 CD_ROOT_3 CD_ROOT_4 CD_ROOT_5 CD_ROOT_6
 * Or, if you have all the files in the same place, or
 * you only have one cdrom, you can export CD_ROOT
 * and that place will be used as the same data source
 * for all the CDs.

[Comment 6 André Terpstra 2004-12-26 02:56:55 UTC]

OK without knowing what preferences you have, I would suggest adding a few lines such as the following ones:

Example (you may want to put these lines in a shell script):

export CD_ROOT_1=<path to UT2004 directory>/CD1
export CD_ROOT_2=<path to UT2004 directory>/CD2
<.. repeat for all 6 CD_ROOT_ variables...>
emerge ut2004

NOTE: replace all text above between < and > with the correct information!

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2004-12-26 14:23:47 UTC]

added this:
        echo
        einfo "For example:"
        einfo "export CD_ROOT=/mnt/cdrom"