Re: [gentoo-alt] Packages file

[Alan Hourihane]

On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 00:07 +0000, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:17:44 +0100, Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've setup a binhost for FreeMiNT and it's working, but there's the
> > previous post question and now an additional one....
> >
> > The file /usr/portage/packages/Packages is generated by the "emaint -f
> > binhost" command.
> >
> > Now for some reason, only some of the packages are tagged with "EPREFIX"
> > and others are not.
>
> In the Packages file, EPREFIX should be mentioned once and only once.
> There is a key in the xpak data of every individual package that stores
> EPREFIX.
>
> You can see my Packages file:
> http://tinderbox.jolexa.net/x86-linux-on-gentoo-x86/Packages
> And all the xpak data explicitly enumerated out in the html view here:
> http://tinderbox.jolexa.net/html/x86-linux-on-gentoo-x86/
>
> So, the question is, what are you doing differently in this regard? Or
> probably: What does EPREFIX="" do in your config regarding generating the
> xpak data. It could very well be a broken code path in portage when
> EPREFIX="". I've built entire prefix's from binpkgs without issue and
> exposed a few issues with my first attempts (now resolved). :)

Perfect. Thanks for this information Jeremy !

So, I removed my current Packages file and re-ran "emaint -f binhost"
which completely regenerated the file.

Problem is that "EPREFIX" isn't mentioned anywhere after the rebuild. If
I manually re-add the line....

EPREFIX: /

to the top of the Packages file then my clients start to work fine.

Not sure why it's not injecting EPREFIX though now. Any clues where to
look ?

Alan.