Re: [gentoo-alt] QA Notice ...

[Alan Hourihane]

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 13:26 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 07-01-2010 12:25:08 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 12:38 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > On 04-01-2010 23:23:58 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > > Is there anything I can do to help what's needs to happen ?
> > > >
> > > > At the moment, all I can see is that these changes need reverting to
> > > > unbreak things.
> > >
> > > How does the latest portage behave in this respect?  What I find
> > > confusing is that only mint seems to suffer from this, whereas this
> > > should be pretty global.  Also STARTDIR is never referenced, just set,
> > > and I found no proof that bash uses it in some way.
> >
> > O.k. I can now remove STARTDIR and it's still fine and also the hunk
> > about injecting EPREFIX.
> >
> > But there's still a problem with one of the following...
> >
> > +       mysettings["EPREFIX"]  = EPREFIX.rstrip(os.path.sep)
> > +       mysettings["ROOT"]     = myroot
> > +       mysettings["EROOT"]    = myroot +
> > mysettings["EPREFIX"].lstrip(os.path.se
> > p) + os.path.sep
> >
> > As otherwise I got this.....
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > You should not use ${EPREFIX} with helpers.
> >   --> /usr/share/eselect/modules
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > When trying to emerge app-admin/eselect-ctags
> >
> > I'm just pinning down which of them cause it.
>
> This I can understand if you don't have EPREFIX set in your environment
> (like I always do).  So that seems like it needs to be fixed then.

Oh, can you also add UNIXMODE to the portage/__init__.py filter
environment as I did in my patch. It's required for FreeMiNT.

Thanks,

Alan.