401239 – has_version and best_version argument for $ROOT

Bug 401239 - has_version and best_version argument for $ROOT

Summary: has_version and best_version argument for $ROOT

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	PMS/EAPI (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	PMS/EAPI

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Whiteboard:	in-eapi-5
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Blocks:	future-eapi
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Reported:	2012-01-28 22:37 UTC by Zac Medico
Modified:	2012-09-23 06:44 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-01-28 22:37:59 UTC

For stage1 builds (or cross compiling), a common pattern is for ebuilds to call `ROOT=/ has_version foo/bar`. It's messy to override the ROOT environment variable like that (maybe PMS doesn't even document this "feature"). So, it would be nice to add an explicit argument to trigger equivalent behavior. Such an argument does not necessarily need to specify path for $ROOT, since ROOT=/ is typically all that's needed in practice. So, for the sake of simplicity, a boolean flag called --host-root might serve the purpose well.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-08-31 01:51:49 UTC

PMS patch:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commit;h=25fb5fca6674215ea8aaa3d0ec3dd3df451eec07

Portage patch:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=bcf4ab871ededc3d535165757ba5597669e33dcb

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-09-23 06:44:06 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> PMS patch:
> 
> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commit;
> h=25fb5fca6674215ea8aaa3d0ec3dd3df451eec07

Commit in master:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commit;h=faaeeba5763814d2a7d0aa700209093cec791cf4