Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Tim Harder <radhermit@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] make PORTAGE_BIN_PATH settings relocatable
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:01:40
Message-Id: 20150601180108.GF18797@tarragon.analog.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] make PORTAGE_BIN_PATH settings relocatable by Mike Frysinger
1 On 2015-06-01 13:25, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > > -source "${PORTAGE_BIN_PATH:-/usr/lib/portage/bin}"/isolated-functions.sh
3 > > +if [[ -z ${PORTAGE_BIN_PATH} ]] ; then
4 > > + PORTAGE_BIN_PATH=$(dirname "$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")")
5 > > +fi
6 > > +source "${PORTAGE_BIN_PATH}"/isolated-functions.sh
7
8 > alternative crazy ideas:
9
10 > (a) just throw an error and exit when PORTAGE_BIN_PATH is not set ...
11 > considering the current portage code points to a path where it is no longer
12 > installed, maybe that's ok ? the recent changes to make portage install copies
13 > for each python version is what broke it i think.
14
15 > (b) add a tool alongside it that can be `eval`-ed, although you'd still need to
16 > do something like:
17 > if [[ -z ${PORTAGE_BIN_PATH} ]] ; then
18 > eval $("$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")/some-tool")
19 > fi
20 > and i don't think that's an improvement relative to my patch (deal with quoting
21 > bs and such).
22
23 > (c) convert most things to python and use relative module imports to get at the
24 > bootstrap module. then that one would hold all the logic.
25
26 > (d) some other alternative ?
27
28 If you're sticking with bash, there is also pkgcore's approach of using
29 a custom shebang script that handles initialization and related generic
30 things for most of the helpers.
31
32 Tim

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