[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes:

> On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:42:09 -0600, reader@×××××××.com wrote:
>
>> I know about /etc/portage/package.use
>> but where would I keep something like and extra configure flag, that I
>> always want applied.
>

> mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/cat/
> echo "EXTRA_ECONF='whatever'" >/etc/portage/env/cat/pkg

Yikes... I was beginning to wonder why I was still getting errors on
root commit.  Looks like I had it backward.. from OP:
  >   ECONF_EXTRA='--enable-rootcommit' 

At the `pkg' part of /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg

Do I need to include the full address somehow like: dev-util/cvs
or just `/etc/portage/env/cat/cvs'

The reason I ask is that it is possible with cvs to get the root
commit error for other (as yet not understood) reasons than actually
being root and trying to commit.

So it might not be so easy to test if the procedure has worked, unless
there is a command for cvs that will make it cough up its compile time
flags.

So I want to know that part is good so I can worry about other
problems with cvs in the event of problems following an update during
update world.

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