On Friday 06 October 2006 14:50, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: [SNIP] > > I'm not sure why you don't > > think he wants the ROOT var. > > Because it didn't sound like he was trying to set up a chroot > environment just for that package but rather make shure its installed > files don't cludder /usr. If ROOT is set, that will also emerge all > RDEPENDs into that.
Hmm... By reading the thread again seems you're right. I blame lack of sleep.
> > Also ${D} isn't where it's going to be
> > installed to (in the ebuild qmerge sense - see `man ebuild'). It's
> > where the image is going to be installed (the ebuild install sense -
> > again see `man ebuild`).
>
> Well, I'm not an English master, but I find your statement irritating.
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It was because I managed to overlook the important part. I just read: "set
DESTDIR to ${D}". Sorry.. Thanks for clearing this. :)
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At least we agree now... And just for the OP: The ROOT var changes the
location of the vdb (/var/db/pkg) too. It contains info about what packages
are installed etc... So the main system (when the ROOT var isn't set - it
defaults to '/') won't even know that a package installed with the ROOT var
set to something else than '/' is installed...
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Bo Andresen
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