On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:27, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Sunday 23 January 2005 02:43, Lisa Seelye wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 21:38 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > > The $ROOT variable allows ebuilds to be installed out of the current
> > > root. As a result of this all operations on files that ebuilds perform
> > > should be using the $ROOT variable as the root, and not "/". The remark
> > > that things work without $ROOT fits most likely with not fully
> > > understanding $ROOT
> >
> > Is $ROOT mentioned in Portage documentation at all in a way that
> > describes how ebuilds should handle cases where $ROOT != "/"?
>
> Simple. Never assume that the root is "/". If you are working outside of
> ${D} then you should be working in ${ROOT}. Make sense?
>
The documentation is lacking though.
Paul
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