454602 – make.globals: prepend PORTDIR with $EPREFIX

Bug 454602 - make.globals: prepend PORTDIR with $EPREFIX

Summary: make.globals: prepend PORTDIR with $EPREFIX

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal minor (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Depends on:	395633
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Reported:	2013-01-30 01:18 UTC by Alexander Sulfrian
Modified:	2013-01-30 01:34 UTC (History)
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Description Alexander Sulfrian 2013-01-30 01:18:20 UTC

Hi,

currently PORTDIR is statically defined to /usr/portage in make.globals. Would it be possible to add ${EPREFIX} before it, so that I could symlink the make.globals into the prefix and it would simply work?

Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. grep ^PORTDIR /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals
Actual Results:  
PORTDIR=/usr/portage

Expected Results:  
PORTDIR=${EPREFIX}/usr/portage

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-01-30 01:34:38 UTC

We tried this for awhile, but then we reverted it because there are some cases where it's better to have PORTDIR hardcoded (see bug #395633).

If you want to share make.globals like this, then you can if you override PORTDIR and stuff in make.conf.