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On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 08:50 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 24-06-2008 17:54:42 -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
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> Portage is not designed to be "handed over" to anyone. However, there |
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> should be just one place in Portage itself where the user is set (this |
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> pym/portage/const_autotool.py). It may implicitly encode it in |
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> installed packages, but this is due to the nature of those packages that |
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> do that themselves. |
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> Maybe one of the two following things is interesting to you: |
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> - alternate Prefix |
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> Setting the EPREFIX variable in the environment makes Portage respect |
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> that location, and install in the location pointed to by $EPREFIX. |
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> This is what Jeremy hinted on, and would allow an existing Prefix |
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> installation to "clone" itself by installing in another location. The |
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> username problems wouldn't go away, but I guess we could fix that in |
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> the ebuild (right now it copies them from the current Portage). |
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> Binary packages are somewhat tested, the alternate Prefix I really |
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> played with, but haubi and mduft use it, if I recall correctly. |
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Need to say we run snapshots of prefix-launcher as one user here, but |
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actually do the eprefix-bootstrap as different user. |
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To do a cross-user bootstrap, prefix-launcher applies a patch[1] to |
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portage, which uses the owner (group) of the new $EPREFIX directory as |
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its "root"-user ("portage"-group)... |
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Note: The cross-eprefix (but same-user) _bootstrap_ works without this |
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patch already. But this is different than what mduft needs for the |
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windows build. |
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[1] http://prefix-launcher.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/prefix-launcher/prefix-launcher/trunk/portage/patches/15-new-eprefix.patch?revision=160&view=markup |
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/haubi/ |
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Michael Haubenwallner |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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