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| From: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-pms@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-pms] Clarification on the read-only status of HOME variable | ||
| Date: | Wed, 04 May 2016 07:12:58 | ||
| Message-Id: | 22313.41203.733325.323581@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-pms] Clarification on the read-only status of HOME variable by "Göktürk Yüksek" |
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| 1 | >>>>> On Tue, 3 May 2016, Göktürk Yüksek wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > I would like to know if HOME variable is read-only or not. According |
| 4 | > to the Section 11.1 of PMS [0] it should be read-only. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | You have answered your own question. :) |
| 7 | |
| 8 | > However, it's not documented in devmanual and repoman does not have |
| 9 | > any checks for it [1]. Can I get a final confirmation before I start |
| 10 | > patching things? |
| 11 | |
| 12 | In fact, HOME is mentioned once in the devmanual [2]. However, it |
| 13 | seems that that paragraph gives completely wrong advice and should be |
| 14 | removed altogether. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Ulrich |
| 17 | |
| 18 | > [0] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-11900011.1 |
| 19 | > [1] https://github.com/gentoo/portage/blob/master/pym/repoman/modules/scan/ebuild/checks.py#L239 |
| 20 | [2] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/appendices/common-problems/index.html#handling-access-violations |