659784 – An additional read-only PKGDIR

Bug 659784 - An additional read-only PKGDIR

Summary: An additional read-only PKGDIR

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Depends on:	920537
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Reported:	2018-07-01 21:42 UTC by Daniel M. Weeks
Modified:	2024-01-14 05:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

See Also:	768957
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Description Daniel M. Weeks 2018-07-01 21:42:15 UTC

This is similar to the combination of PORTAGE_RO_DISTDIRS and DISTDIR. For example, a closed environment (chroot, lxc, etc) for building packages where an existing PKGDIR is mounted RO but new packages built should be placed in a writable path.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2018-07-02 17:28:02 UTC

Since PORTAGE_BINHOST already allows an arbitrary number of binhosts, this could be implemented as file:// URI support in PORTAGE_BINHOST.

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2024-01-14 05:18:33 UTC

(In reply to Zac Medico from comment #1)
> Since PORTAGE_BINHOST already allows an arbitrary number of binhosts, this
> could be implemented as file:// URI support in PORTAGE_BINHOST.

This was done with bug 920537 \o/