Bug 885799 – sys-apps/portage: document stickiness for some settings like repo location and BINPKG_COMPRESS

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description CaptainBlood 2022-12-13 17:56:41 UTC]

app-arch/zstd is installed.
grep BINPKG_FORMAT /etc/portage/make.conf is empty.

emerge -v --info|grep "BINPKG_COMPRESS" returns:
BINPKG_COMPRESS="bzip2"

zstd doesn't seems defaulted to here.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 CaptainBlood 2022-12-13 19:24:05 UTC]

Adding a man section about /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals would make things more clear.

[Comment 2 Sam James 2022-12-14 05:01:40 UTC]

The setting is sticky so it doesn't change for existing installs.

[Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow 2022-12-14 05:03:23 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=e799003581e49a3ba2aac0d49821f52ed6eda931

commit e799003581e49a3ba2aac0d49821f52ed6eda931
Author:     Sam James <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2022-12-14 04:57:57 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2022-12-14 05:03:15 +0000

    man/make.conf.5: describe binpkg suffix
    
    - BINPKG_FORMAT="xpak" has suffix .tbz2 for any compression type(!)
    - BINPKG_FORMAT="xpak" and FEATURES="binpkg-multi-instance" (default
      as of bug #715112) has suffix .xpak.
    - BINPKG_FORMAT="gpkg" has suffix .gpkg.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/696080
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715112
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/721070
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/885799
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <[e-mail]>

 NEWS            |  3 +++
 man/make.conf.5 | 10 +++++++---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

[Comment 4 Sam James 2022-12-14 05:03:53 UTC]

(Tagged the bug because of the discussion at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1159815.html.)