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Bug 147427 - $ROOT must be absolute
Summary: $ROOT must be absolute
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Keywords: InVCS
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Blocks: 147007
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Reported: 2006-09-13 01:58 UTC by Brad Plant
Modified: 2006-09-15 20:31 UTC (History)
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Description Brad Plant 2006-09-13 01:58:40 UTC 
When setting the $ROOT variable (at least when using binary packages), the path must be absolute. The man page for emerge doesn't state that this is the case.
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2006-09-15 20:31:21 UTC 
This has been released in 2.1.2_pre1.