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Bug 463266 - Possibility to make /etc/portage/make.conf a directory
Summary: Possibility to make /etc/portage/make.conf a directory
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Configuration (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement
Assignee: Portage team
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Keywords: InVCS
: 532664 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 462382
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Reported: 2013-03-25 18:18 UTC by Hanno Böck
Modified: 2015-02-04 20:18 UTC (History)
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Description Hanno Böck gentoo-dev 2013-03-25 18:18:22 UTC 
Currently it's possible to have multiple files of e.g. package.keywords and other portage-related configs by making a directory, e.g.
/etc/portage/package.keywords/{a,b,c}

However, this is not possible with make.conf. It would IMHO make sense for consistency of portage's behavior if it'd also be possible to have
/etc/portage/make.conf/{a,b,c}

(I'm aware that you can simulate similar behavior by using "source" in make.conf, so this is no severe issue, but nevertheless I think it'd be a feature that would make sense)
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2013-03-26 00:05:53 UTC 
Internally, we can implement this as a series of automatically generated 'source' commands, which will allow for precise reporting of file and line number for any syntax errors that may be encountered in the individual files.
Comment 4 Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-03-27 14:01:22 UTC 
While I actually like this idea.  Changing make.conf to a directory on a system will most likely break a lot of tools.  The assumption for most tools is that make.conf is a bash sourceable file.

Zac, Thinking out loud here, can we add a command to portageq that will return a list of make.conf files and the order they are processed by Portage?  This will at least allow a tool to get the list and process them in the correct order.
Comment 5 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2013-03-27 14:39:11 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> Zac, Thinking out loud here, can we add a command to portageq that will
> return a list of make.conf files and the order they are processed by
> Portage?  This will at least allow a tool to get the list and process them
> in the correct order.

Maybe it would be more useful to have portageq output all of the environment variables obtained from all sources including profile.env, make.globals, make.defaults, make.conf, and files sourced by make.conf?
Comment 6 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2013-03-27 17:08:04 UTC 
This is fixed in 2.1.11.59 and 2.2.0_alpha170.
Comment 7 Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-03-28 01:15:55 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Maybe it would be more useful to have portageq output all of the environment
> variables obtained from all sources including profile.env, make.globals,
> make.defaults, make.conf, and files sourced by make.conf?

That would work.
Comment 8 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2014-12-15 22:14:25 UTC 
*** Bug 532664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***