Re: [gentoo-user] Change install directory of ebuilds?

[Andreas Simbuerger]

On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 17:15 -0400, David Relson wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:17:52 +0200
> Andreas Simbuerger wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 22:08 +0200, Justin wrote:
> > > Andreas Simbuerger schrieb:
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to change the install-directory of ebuilds?
> > > > Let's say for example:
> > > >
> > > > TODIR=/usr/local/lib emerge python
> > > >
> > > > I tried to find a clue within the Gentoo Documentation and the
> > > > Forums but still no idea how to do that.
> > > >
> > > > -----
> > > > As it is my first post to a mailing list, i hope it's not kind of
> > > > a dumb question that can be solved by a "RTFM" ;-)
> > > > -----
> > > >
> > > > - Andreas
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > What really do you want to do? Whats your intention behind?
> >
> > I had some trouble during upgrading Python2.4 to Python2.5
> > where some ebuilds installed themselves to /usr/local/lib
> > depending ebuilds were looking into /usr/lib.
> >
> > Whilst having no idea how i messed that one up (aside from accepting
> > ~amd64 ebuilds ;-)) i want to correct that by remerging
> > the messed up packages with the correct(?) path.
> >
> > In addition i try to solve the problems by doing an
> >  emerge -eaD world
> > right at the moment
> >
> > - Andreas
>
> H'lo Andreas,
>
> Here're some ideas, for whatever they're worth:
>
> Installs to /usr/local/lib sounds like b0rked ebuilds.  I'd try using
> equery to find the ebuilds that installed "bad" files.  Then I'd look
> for "/usr/local" in those ebuilds and fix them.  Putting the fixed
> ebuilds in /usr/local/portage/..., rather than just
> changing /usr/portage/..., might be even better.  Lastly, I'd report
> the b0rked ebuilds on bugzilla.gentoo.org and would include the fixes
> with the reports.
>
> Looking on my system, all that /usr/local/lib is
> /usr/local/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/doxypy-0.3rc2-py2.5.egg-info
> which appears to have come from manually installing
> ~/Download/doxypy-0.3rc2.tar.gz, i.e. the one such file I have isn't
> from an ebuild at all.  Might that be what's happened to you?
>
> HTH,
>
> David
Thanks for this idea! :D

So portage takes /usr/local/portage before /usr/portage ?
Cool thing! I will try that after emerge -eD world has finished
... 330 of 697 weeeeeee ;-)

Although i don't have any downloaded packages, everything that went
in, went in through portage ;D

Besides...i got the following packages installed to /usr/local/.....
I still doubt that this is a problem with ~amd64....
Perhaps something in /etc/env.d/ can cause this? Didn't change
anything in there...

rei python2.5 # qfile -v /usr/local/lib/python2.5

net-p2p/bittorrent-5.2.0 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
sys-apps/file-4.26 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
net-zope/zopeinterface-3.0.1-r1 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
dev-java/java-config-1.3.7 (/usr/local/lib64/python2.5)
dev-java/java-config-2.1.6-r1 (/usr/local/lib64/python2.5)
dev-python/pyopenssl-0.7 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
dev-python/pyopengl-3.0.0_beta1 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
dev-python/pyxdg-0.15 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
dev-python/twisted-8.1.0 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
dev-python/pyrex-0.9.8.5 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
dev-python/python-ldap-2.3.5 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
dev-python/dnspython-1.6.0 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
dev-python/wxpython-2.6.4.0-r2 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
dev-python/numeric-24.2-r6 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
dev-python/pycairo-1.4.12 (/usr/local/lib64/python2.5)
dev-python/pyxml-0.8.4-r1 (/usr/local/lib64/python2.5)
dev-python/twisted-web-8.1.0 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
dev-python/gdata-1.0.8 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)
dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 (/usr/local/lib/python2.5)

- Andreas