Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: "Michael Stewart (vericgar)" <vericgar@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Bugzilla Bug 112779: New and Improved Way to Handle /etc/portage
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:46:48
Message-Id: 4383BBD2.4000803@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Bugzilla Bug 112779: New and Improved Way to Handle /etc/portage by Brian Harring
1 Brian Harring wrote:
2 > Will review the patch in a bit, but...
3 >
4 > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 05:14:55PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote:
5 >
6 >>With this variable you can set a
7 >>space separated list of directories (if you leave out /etc/portage then it
8 >>will _not_ be included).
9 >
10 > Kind of a gotcha there. Additionaly, no go on spaces, too easy for
11 > odd paths to trigger an issue (OSX's /Volumes mounting names fex will
12 > be an issue).
13 > ~harring
14
15 re: spaces - what does PORTDIR_OVERLAY use? the two configuration
16 variables should have the same syntax. (and spaces in the path can be
17 dealt with in the same way as when the issue crops up for PORTDIR_OVERLAY)
18
19 I agree on the gotcha of leaving out /etc/portage - it should *always*
20 be included - this is mostly a global documentation issue.
21
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23 Michael Stewart vericgar@g.o
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