Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating multiple "installations" on the same host

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 20:57, Joseph Booker wrote:
> Mike Frysinger said:
> > what if he wants to crosscompile
> > -mike
>
>  ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS
>          ROOT = [path]
>                 Use  ROOT  to  specify the target root filesystem to be
> used for merging packages or ebuilds.  Defaults to /.
>
>
> for merging the packages..........$ROOT sounds like to me (and I havn't
> checked) that when an emerge is done, when it 'merges' /..../image with /,
> it insteads merges it with $ROOT, for example, if $ROOT was /usr, then all
> the files installed in /etc would to got /usr/etc, all in /usr/bin goto
> /usr/usr/bin, etc.
>
> But that is only my guess

It should also add the package metadata to /var/db/pkg
As the world file is obviously installation related it should also be used 
from the ROOT variable, not from / (if it doesn't it would be a bug)
make.conf should probably be configurable from another environment variable, 
but it would probably an enhancement.

Paul

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