Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge: specifying an alternate portage tree

[Ryan Shaw]

Thanks. I didn't notice that PORTDIR. That works for me.

Ed wrote:

>   Well, when I grep for portage in make.globals, I see PORTDIR=/usr/portage.
> This implies that it is a settable parameter.  You could set PORTDIR in any
> on the three config files, or theoretically in your environment.  So, you
> could put it in make.conf.  Of course, you could make /usr/portage a symlink
> to another place and swap your symlinks when you want to use a particular
> tree.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Shaw" <ryan.shaw@××××××××××××××.org>
> To: <gentoo-dev@g.o>
> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 12:36 AM
> Subject: [gentoo-dev] emerge: specifying an alternate portage tree
>
>
> > is there a way to tell emerge to use an alternate
> > portage tree?
> >
> > the reason i ask is that when i am working on
> > ebuilds i like to keep them out of my real portage
> > tree while i am working on them. i can use ebuild
> > to test them out, but when i've got builds with
> > interdependencies i'd like to do some testruns
> > with emerge without having to put the builds in
> > my real portage tree.
> >
> > ryan
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