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%% david@×××××××××.com writes: |
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>> In fact, I gave an example in the email you replied to, from the latest |
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>> Portage CVS :-) : |
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>> myworld=open("/var/cache/edb/world","w") |
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>> No setting of ROOT can possibly cause this to open any file other than |
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>> "/var/cache/edb/world". I want it to access the file |
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>> "$ROOT/var/cache/edb/world" instead. |
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d> actually you are incorrect. It does reference |
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d> $ROOT/var/cache/edb/world just try it and see. |
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Hm. I'm assuming this didn't work for us before (the original work on |
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this was done with a pre-2.0.49 Portage last summer), but I'll try it |
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again with the latest vanilla Portage. |
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d> IIRC there was a time when the only thing that was read from / and |
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d> not $ROOT was make.conf |
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d> I think that may have changed, I recall somebody mentioning a patch |
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d> on IRC. |
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That would need to change in my environment: I need make.conf to be |
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local to the ROOT as well. |
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I'll try it out. |
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