Bug 529200 – sys-apps/portage: portageq root parameter no longer works

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Zac Medico 2014-11-14 01:54:14 UTC]

It was broken by this change in commit c9f6aa9f0151adb3c86706eaef1914cdbdcf2b6d, since it causes portage.settings to be instantiated earlier:

diff --git a/bin/portageq b/bin/portageq
index c88ee88..1ae1fe1 100755
--- a/bin/portageq
+++ b/bin/portageq
@@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ def main(argv):
 			sys.stderr.write("Run portageq with --help for info\n")
 			sys.stderr.flush()
 			sys.exit(os.EX_USAGE)
-		eprefix = portage.const.EPREFIX
+		eprefix = portage.settings["EPREFIX"]
 		eroot = portage.util.normalize_path(argv[2])
 
 		if eprefix:

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2014-11-14 07:45:34 UTC]

I have a patch in the following branch:

	https://github.com/zmedico/portage/tree/bug_529200

I've posted it for review here:

	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/4783

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2014-11-14 17:39:40 UTC]

This is in git now:

https://github.com/gentoo/portage/commit/3b08575233ecf1d3e6f31f959741a4826aeac4a9

[Comment 3 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) 2014-12-04 05:38:17 UTC]

This is in the portage-2.2.15 release.