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>>>>> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>> This topic was already discussed in -dev some time ago [1], but went |
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>> nowhere at the time. Now it came up again in bug 469210 [2]. |
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>> (Ironically, checking for a particular kernel configuration is the |
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>> example mentioned in the spec for pkg_pretend.) |
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>> We say in Table 11.1 [3] that T and TMPDIR (and HOME) are legal in all |
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>> phases and must be "the location of a usable temporary directory". At |
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>> the same time, we say in the spec for pkg_* phases that they "must not |
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>> write to the filesystem" [4], or that they "must not write outside of |
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>> the directories specified by the ROOT and D environment variables" [5] |
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>> which effectively forbids writing to the ${T} etc. directories. |
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>> What is the purpose of this restriction? From above mentioned bug I |
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>> conclude that neither Portage nor Paludis enforce it. |
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> Coming back to this. As I have been told, the same is true for Pkgcore. |
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> So, find a patch included below. Please review. |
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Pushed. |
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