Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] prefix portage chaining

2009-03-26 Thread Markus Duft
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:44 -0700, Ned Ludd wrote:
[snip]
 
 
 While much of what you are talking about here mainly applies to prefix,
 it looks to me from glancing over the code that you might of solved a
 long standing problem in the embedded world with cross compiling via
 portage. 222895  If that is the case, then I owe you a beer. one about
 the size of a keg.
 

lol, thx for the beer ;)

hmm... looking over that patch again, the only EPREFIX dependent thing
is, that i'm removing EPREFIX from the vartree class again :) so this
should pretty much plain apply to main too, and simply work. you may
want to rename READONLY_EPREFIX to READONLY_ROOT, but thats it :)

the other stuff besides portage modification (baselayout patchery, etc.
is prefix specific again, so all you'd need is the portage changes.

if you will try it, please let me know if it worked :) with the attached
patch sed -i -e 's,READONLY_EPREFIX,READONLY_ROOT,g', and applying to
an installed /usr/lib/portage should enable you to do it.
(backup /usr/lib/portage - i trust my work, but... we never know for
sure :))

then add to make.conf: READONLY_ROOT=/my/other/root:DEPEND

i hope this is what you where looking for...! and i hope it doesn't
somehow clash with the existing cross compile logic in portage regarding
where to merge to...

Cheers, Markus

 
diff -ru portage.orig/bin/ebuild.sh portage/bin/ebuild.sh
--- portage.orig/bin/ebuild.sh	2009-03-24 16:44:15.0 +0100
+++ portage/bin/ebuild.sh	2009-03-25 07:32:07.0 +0100
@@ -69,7 +69,38 @@
 # Unset some variables that break things.
 unset GZIP BZIP BZIP2 CDPATH GREP_OPTIONS GREP_COLOR GLOBIGNORE
 
-export PATH=${DEFAULT_PATH}:$PORTAGE_BIN_PATH/ebuild-helpers:${ROOTPATH}
+if [[ -n ${PORTAGE_READONLY_EROOTS} ]]; then
+	new_PATH=$PORTAGE_BIN_PATH/ebuild-helpers:${ROOTPATH}
+
+	save_IFS=$IFS
+	IFS=':'
+
+	for eroot in ${PORTAGE_READONLY_EROOTS}:${EPREFIX}; do
+		IFS=$save_IFS
+		[[ -f ${eroot}/usr/share/portage/config/make.globals ]] || continue
+		defpath=$(. ${eroot}/etc/make.globals  echo $DEFAULT_PATH)
+		okpath=
+		save_IFS2=$IFS
+		IFS=':'
+		for p in $defpath; do
+			IFS=$save_IFS2
+			[[ :${new_PATH}: == *:$p:* ]]  continue
+			if [[ -z ${okpath} ]]; then
+okpath=${p}
+			else
+okpath=${okpath}:${p}
+			fi
+		done
+		IFS=$save_IFS2
+
+		new_PATH=${okpath}:${new_PATH}
+	done
+	IFS=$save_IFS
+
+	export PATH=$new_PATH
+else
+	export PATH=${DEFAULT_PATH}:$PORTAGE_BIN_PATH/ebuild-helpers:${ROOTPATH}
+fi
 [ ! -z $PREROOTPATH ]  export PATH=${PREROOTPATH%%:}:$PATH
 
 source ${PORTAGE_BIN_PATH}/isolated-functions.sh  /dev/null
diff -ru portage.orig/pym/_emerge/__init__.py portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py
--- portage.orig/pym/_emerge/__init__.py	2009-03-24 16:43:02.0 +0100
+++ portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py	2009-03-24 16:42:51.0 +0100
@@ -5269,17 +5269,18 @@
 			edepend[DEPEND] = 
 
 		deps = (
-			(/, edepend[DEPEND],
+			(/, DEPEND,
 self._priority(buildtime=(not bdeps_optional),
 optional=bdeps_optional)),
-			(myroot, edepend[RDEPEND], self._priority(runtime=True)),
-			(myroot, edepend[PDEPEND], self._priority(runtime_post=True))
+			(myroot, RDEPEND, self._priority(runtime=True)),
+			(myroot, PDEPEND, self._priority(runtime_post=True))
 		)
 
 		debug = --debug in self.myopts
 		strict = mytype != installed
 		try:
-			for dep_root, dep_string, dep_priority in deps:
+			for dep_root, dep_type, dep_priority in deps:
+dep_string = edepend[dep_type]
 if not dep_string:
 	continue
 if debug:
@@ -5289,9 +5290,11 @@
 	print Priority:, dep_priority
 vardb = self.roots[dep_root].trees[vartree].dbapi
 try:
+	# MDUFT: selected_atoms will not contain anything
+	# that can be resolved from a readonly root!
 	selected_atoms = self._select_atoms(dep_root,
 		dep_string, myuse=myuse, parent=pkg, strict=strict,
-		priority=dep_priority)
+		priority=dep_priority, dep_type=dep_type)
 except portage.exception.InvalidDependString, e:
 	show_invalid_depstring_notice(jbigkey, dep_string, str(e))
 	return 0
@@ -5916,12 +5919,18 @@
 		return self._select_atoms_highest_available(*pargs, **kwargs)
 
 	def _select_atoms_highest_available(self, root, depstring,
-		myuse=None, parent=None, strict=True, trees=None, priority=None):
+		myuse=None, parent=None, strict=True, trees=None, priority=None, dep_type=None):
 		This will raise InvalidDependString if necessary. If trees is
 		None then self._filtered_trees is used.
 		pkgsettings = self.pkgsettings[root]
 		if trees is None:
 			trees = self._filtered_trees
+
+		# this one is needed to guarantee good readonly root
+		# resolution display in the merge list. required since
+		# parent (below) can be None
+		trees[root][disp_parent] = parent
+
 		if not getattr(priority, buildtime, False):
 			# The parent should only be passed to dep_check() for buildtime
 			# dependencies since that's the only case when it's appropriate
@@ -5938,7 +5947,7 @@
 	

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] prefix portage chaining

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 08:26 +0100, Markus Duft wrote:
 On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:44 -0700, Ned Ludd wrote:
  While much of what you are talking about here mainly applies to prefix,
  it looks to me from glancing over the code that you might of solved a
  long standing problem in the embedded world with cross compiling via
  portage. 222895  If that is the case, then I owe you a beer. one about
  the size of a keg.

 hmm... looking over that patch again, the only EPREFIX dependent thing
 is, that i'm removing EPREFIX from the vartree class again :) so this
 should pretty much plain apply to main too, and simply work. you may
 want to rename READONLY_EPREFIX to READONLY_ROOT, but thats it :)

 then add to make.conf: READONLY_ROOT=/my/other/root:DEPEND

IMO, for non-prefix this is useful for [[ $ROOT != '/' ]] only, with
either CHOST (root=$ROOT) being equal to CBUILD (root='/') or not.
And the only two senseful values for READONLY_ROOT in make.conf are:
1. /:DEPEND
   To skip merging cmdline utilities (=DEPEND) to host-root (=$ROOT), by
   resolving them from build-root (='/').
2. unset
   To merge all DEPENDs to host-root (=$ROOT), although they are still
   used from build-root (='/') during build.

/haubi/
-- 
Michael Haubenwallner
Gentoo on a different level




Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] prefix portage chaining

2009-03-26 Thread Ned Ludd
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 08:26 +0100, Markus Duft wrote:
 On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:44 -0700, Ned Ludd wrote:
 [snip]
  
  
  While much of what you are talking about here mainly applies to prefix,
  it looks to me from glancing over the code that you might of solved a
  long standing problem in the embedded world with cross compiling via
  portage. 222895  If that is the case, then I owe you a beer. one about
  the size of a keg.
  
 
 lol, thx for the beer ;)
 
 hmm... looking over that patch again, the only EPREFIX dependent thing
 is, that i'm removing EPREFIX from the vartree class again :) so this
 should pretty much plain apply to main too, and simply work. you may
 want to rename READONLY_EPREFIX to READONLY_ROOT, but thats it :)
 
 the other stuff besides portage modification (baselayout patchery, etc.
 is prefix specific again, so all you'd need is the portage changes.
 
 if you will try it, please let me know if it worked :) with the attached
 patch sed -i -e 's,READONLY_EPREFIX,READONLY_ROOT,g', and applying to
 an installed /usr/lib/portage should enable you to do it.
 (backup /usr/lib/portage - i trust my work, but... we never know for
 sure :))
 
 then add to make.conf: READONLY_ROOT=/my/other/root:DEPEND
 
 i hope this is what you where looking for...! and i hope it doesn't
 somehow clash with the existing cross compile logic in portage regarding
 where to merge to...
 
 Cheers, Markus


patch failed a few hunks for me on ~arch vanilla-portage. I did point
out the patch to one of the gentoo embedded/openmoko guys. Think they
will be the most eager to test this.

In our case if the code did work out whatever you call READONLY_ROOT we
would probably need to expand to allow for more that one ROOT if it has
to be defined in the parent /etc/make.conf


-- 
Ned Ludd so...@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux




Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] prefix portage chaining

2009-03-25 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 20-03-2009 11:35:09 +0100, Markus Duft wrote:
 i'll try and explain what i want in the first place: i'm porting things
 to native windows. since windows isn't too cooperative, i'm unable to
 merge most things (and with other things, i simply don't want to), and
 thus i need to take those things from somewhere else (more or less the
 complete @system). I _am_ able to build all those things for interix
 (which is the host system in the windows case). So what i want is a
 setup of two prefix instances with a certain relation to each other: the
 native windows prefix should be able to recognize installed packages
 from the other instance, and resolve dependencies by eventually using
 the other .../var/db/...

Since Windows and Interix seem to be two different things to me, can you
explain why in this case Portage can resolve the dependencies from the
Interix system to use for the Windows system?  What dependencies are we
talking about?  Build tools?  Libraries?  Runtime dependencies?

 This could be (and is) quite usefull for all other platforms too. For
 exmaple i could use prefix chaining on a linux box. I could create a
 prefix containing a base system, and then for testing of
 i-don't-know-whatever, i could create another small prefix inheriting
 all installed packages from the other one. this way new prefixes can
 stay very slim, but still the parent prefix is not altered on merges.

That potentially is useful, in the case where you want to upgrade a
critical system package and test it out or something.  Can't think of an
example other than Portage itself for the moment, though.  (And that one
can be hairy, for instance if the vdb format changes NEEDED -
NEEDED.ELF.2)

 one issue not handled by the current patch is, that prefixes can have
 different CHOST/ARCH/... (which is the case with x86-interix and
 x86-winnt for example).

Then how does it work for you?


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level



Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] prefix portage chaining

2009-03-25 Thread Markus Duft
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:00 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
 On 20-03-2009 11:35:09 +0100, Markus Duft wrote:
  i'll try and explain what i want in the first place: i'm porting things
  to native windows. since windows isn't too cooperative, i'm unable to
  merge most things (and with other things, i simply don't want to), and
  thus i need to take those things from somewhere else (more or less the
  complete @system). I _am_ able to build all those things for interix
  (which is the host system in the windows case). So what i want is a
  setup of two prefix instances with a certain relation to each other: the
  native windows prefix should be able to recognize installed packages
  from the other instance, and resolve dependencies by eventually using
  the other .../var/db/...
 
 Since Windows and Interix seem to be two different things to me, can you
 explain why in this case Portage can resolve the dependencies from the
 Interix system to use for the Windows system?  What dependencies are we
 talking about?  Build tools?  Libraries?  Runtime dependencies?

i'm using it to resolve DEPEND atoms only. of course my notion of valid
DEPENDs and RDEPENDs is influenced by this, and i'm alergic against
RDEPEND=$DEPEND and such :) since it doesn't work in this setup. however
right now most things i need don't make too much problems.

 
  This could be (and is) quite usefull for all other platforms too. For
  exmaple i could use prefix chaining on a linux box. I could create a
  prefix containing a base system, and then for testing of
  i-don't-know-whatever, i could create another small prefix inheriting
  all installed packages from the other one. this way new prefixes can
  stay very slim, but still the parent prefix is not altered on merges.
 
 That potentially is useful, in the case where you want to upgrade a
 critical system package and test it out or something.  Can't think of an
 example other than Portage itself for the moment, though.  (And that one
 can be hairy, for instance if the vdb format changes NEEDED -
 NEEDED.ELF.2)

++ :)

 
  one issue not handled by the current patch is, that prefixes can have
  different CHOST/ARCH/... (which is the case with x86-interix and
  x86-winnt for example).
 
 Then how does it work for you?

as i said, i'm using DEPENDs only from the other prefix with the
different CHOST/ARCH. this works, since on interix i can execute windows
binaries, and vice versa (limited).

the patch i proposed here and on gentoo-alt@ (btw. i have a fixed
version lying around since a few minutes ...) allows the user to set
which atoms should be resolve-able from the chain. for exmaple for
windows i'm doing this in /my/winnt/prefix/etc/make.conf:

READONLY_EROOT=/my/interix/prefix:DEPEND

on linux, if both prefixes are x86-linux for example i could to
in /my/prefix/two/etc/make.conf:

READONLY_EROOT=/my/prefix/one:DEPEND,RDEPEND

(btw. this forces PDEPENDs to merge in /my/prefix/two. i guess most of
the time this makes sense, since with a PDEPEND from a lib, i want the
PDEPEND package to link against this lib... you know what i mean? of
course PDEPEND can still be added to the above list...)

(btw2. the name READONLY_EROOT is discussed on gentoo-alt@ already, so i
won't comment on it beeing cool/uncool here... ;) )

Cheers, Markus

 
 




Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] prefix portage chaining

2009-03-25 Thread Ned Ludd
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:14 +0100, Markus Duft wrote:
 On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:00 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
  On 20-03-2009 11:35:09 +0100, Markus Duft wrote:
   i'll try and explain what i want in the first place: i'm porting things
   to native windows. since windows isn't too cooperative, i'm unable to
   merge most things (and with other things, i simply don't want to), and
   thus i need to take those things from somewhere else (more or less the
   complete @system). I _am_ able to build all those things for interix
   (which is the host system in the windows case). So what i want is a
   setup of two prefix instances with a certain relation to each other: the
   native windows prefix should be able to recognize installed packages
   from the other instance, and resolve dependencies by eventually using
   the other .../var/db/...
  
  Since Windows and Interix seem to be two different things to me, can you
  explain why in this case Portage can resolve the dependencies from the
  Interix system to use for the Windows system?  What dependencies are we
  talking about?  Build tools?  Libraries?  Runtime dependencies?
 
 i'm using it to resolve DEPEND atoms only. of course my notion of valid
 DEPENDs and RDEPENDs is influenced by this, and i'm alergic against
 RDEPEND=$DEPEND and such :) since it doesn't work in this setup. however
 right now most things i need don't make too much problems.
 
  
   This could be (and is) quite usefull for all other platforms too. For
   exmaple i could use prefix chaining on a linux box. I could create a
   prefix containing a base system, and then for testing of
   i-don't-know-whatever, i could create another small prefix inheriting
   all installed packages from the other one. this way new prefixes can
   stay very slim, but still the parent prefix is not altered on merges.
  
  That potentially is useful, in the case where you want to upgrade a
  critical system package and test it out or something.  Can't think of an
  example other than Portage itself for the moment, though.  (And that one
  can be hairy, for instance if the vdb format changes NEEDED -
  NEEDED.ELF.2)
 
 ++ :)
 
  
   one issue not handled by the current patch is, that prefixes can have
   different CHOST/ARCH/... (which is the case with x86-interix and
   x86-winnt for example).
  
  Then how does it work for you?
 
 as i said, i'm using DEPENDs only from the other prefix with the
 different CHOST/ARCH. this works, since on interix i can execute windows
 binaries, and vice versa (limited).
 
 the patch i proposed here and on gentoo-alt@ (btw. i have a fixed
 version lying around since a few minutes ...) allows the user to set
 which atoms should be resolve-able from the chain. for exmaple for
 windows i'm doing this in /my/winnt/prefix/etc/make.conf:
 
 READONLY_EROOT=/my/interix/prefix:DEPEND
 
 on linux, if both prefixes are x86-linux for example i could to
 in /my/prefix/two/etc/make.conf:
 
 READONLY_EROOT=/my/prefix/one:DEPEND,RDEPEND
 
 (btw. this forces PDEPENDs to merge in /my/prefix/two. i guess most of
 the time this makes sense, since with a PDEPEND from a lib, i want the
 PDEPEND package to link against this lib... you know what i mean? of
 course PDEPEND can still be added to the above list...)
 
 (btw2. the name READONLY_EROOT is discussed on gentoo-alt@ already, so i
 won't comment on it beeing cool/uncool here... ;) )
 
 Cheers, Markus
 
  
  
 
 \


While much of what you are talking about here mainly applies to prefix,
it looks to me from glancing over the code that you might of solved a
long standing problem in the embedded world with cross compiling via
portage. 222895  If that is the case, then I owe you a beer. one about
the size of a keg.


-- 
Ned Ludd so...@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux




Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] prefix portage chaining

2009-03-23 Thread Markus Duft
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 08:27 +0100, Markus Duft wrote:
 On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 12:11 +0100, Markus Duft wrote:
  On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 11:35 +0100, Markus Duft wrote:
   Hey guys :)
   
   Just wanted to stop by and get some opinions on a patch i wrote for the
   prefix branch.
  
 [snip]
 
 Hey there. Seemingly nobody has any comments on this..? :) here's a
 working version of the patch. i realized that the last one worked only
 by accident :) maybe now, some comments (or questions)?

i'm eager to find out how many times i can forget to attach the patch :)

sorry for the noise

Cheers, Markus

 
 Thanks, Cheers, Markus
 
 [snip]
   
   Waiting for comments, suggestions, etc.
   
   Thanks in advance,
   Cheers, Markus
   
   
 
 
diff -ru portage.orig/pym/_emerge/__init__.py portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py
--- portage.orig/pym/_emerge/__init__.py	2009-03-18 10:13:34.0 +0100
+++ portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py	2009-03-23 08:46:59.0 +0100
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 import portage.xpak, commands, errno, re, socket, time
 from portage.output import blue, bold, colorize, darkblue, darkgreen, darkred, green, \
 	nc_len, red, teal, turquoise, xtermTitle, \
-	xtermTitleReset, yellow
+	xtermTitleReset, yellow, purple
 from portage.output import create_color_func
 good = create_color_func(GOOD)
 bad = create_color_func(BAD)
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
 from portage.util import cmp_sort_key, writemsg, writemsg_level
 from portage.sets import load_default_config, SETPREFIX
 from portage.sets.base import InternalPackageSet
+from portage.dbapi.vartree import vartree
 
 from itertools import chain, izip
 
@@ -4692,6 +4693,7 @@
 		self._unsatisfied_deps_for_display = []
 		self._unsatisfied_blockers_for_display = None
 		self._circular_deps_for_display = None
+		self._injected_readonly_deps_for_display = []
 		self._dep_stack = []
 		self._unsatisfied_deps = []
 		self._initially_unsatisfied_deps = []
@@ -5270,18 +5272,35 @@
 		if removal_action and self.myopts.get(--with-bdeps, y) == n:
 			edepend[DEPEND] = 
 
+		# MDUFT: create additional vartrees for every readonly root here
+		# (maybe FakeVartree's?). Then below search those trees and set
+		# mypriority.satisfied to True.
+		# the ro_vartrees instances are created below as they are needed to
+		# avoid reading vartrees of portage instances which aren't required
+		# while resolving this dependencies.
+		ro_trees = {}
+		ro_vartrees = {}
+		
+		for type in (DEPEND,RDEPEND, PDEPEND):
+			ro_trees[type] = []
+			
+			for ro_root, ro_dep_types in self.settings.readonly_roots.items():
+if type in ro_dep_types:
+	ro_trees[type].append(ro_root)
+
 		deps = (
-			(/, edepend[DEPEND],
+			(/, DEPEND,
 self._priority(buildtime=(not bdeps_optional),
 optional=bdeps_optional)),
-			(myroot, edepend[RDEPEND], self._priority(runtime=True)),
-			(myroot, edepend[PDEPEND], self._priority(runtime_post=True))
+			(myroot, RDEPEND, self._priority(runtime=True)),
+			(myroot, PDEPEND, self._priority(runtime_post=True))
 		)
 
 		debug = --debug in self.myopts
 		strict = mytype != installed
 		try:
-			for dep_root, dep_string, dep_priority in deps:
+			for dep_root, dep_type, dep_priority in deps:
+dep_string = edepend[dep_type]
 if not dep_string:
 	continue
 if debug:
@@ -5309,6 +5328,43 @@
 		if not atom.blocker and vardb.match(atom):
 			mypriority.satisfied = True
 
+		# MDUFT: How erver we do it - if we find atom beeing installed
+		# in a valid readonly root for the current dependency type, then
+		# _DONT_ call the below, but rather return 1 immediately.
+		ro_matched = False
+		for ro_root in ro_trees[dep_type]:
+			if not ro_vartrees.has_key(ro_root):
+# target_root=ro_root ok? or should it be the real target_root?
+_tmp_settings = portage.config(config_root=ro_root, target_root=ro_root,
+	config_incrementals=portage.const.INCREMENTALS)
+#_tmp_trees = portage.util.LazyItemsDict()
+#_tmp_trees.addLazySingleton(vartree, vartree, ro_root,
+#	categories=_tmp_settings.categories, settings=_tmp_settings)
+
+#setconfig = load_default_config(_tmp_trees[vartree].settings, _tmp_trees)
+#ro_vartrees[ro_root] = FakeVartree(RootConfig(_tmp_trees[vartree].settings,
+#	_tmp_trees, setconfig), acquire_lock=0)
+
+ro_vartrees[ro_root] = vartree(root=ro_root, categories=_tmp_settings.categories, 
+	settings=_tmp_settings, kill_eprefix=True)
+	
+			ro_matches = ro_vartrees[ro_root].dbapi.match(atom)
+			
+			if ro_matches:
+if dep_type is RDEPEND:
+	# we need to assure binary compatability, so it needs to be
+	# the same CHOST! But how? for now i cannot do anything...
+	pass
+
+# injected dep for display. those get shown with the merge list.
+self._injected_readonly_deps_for_display.append({ro_root : ro_root, atom : atom, 
+	matches: ro_matches, type: 

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] prefix portage chaining

2009-03-20 Thread Markus Duft
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 11:35 +0100, Markus Duft wrote:
 Hey guys :)
 
 Just wanted to stop by and get some opinions on a patch i wrote for the
 prefix branch.

argh... managed to fail to attach the patch _again_ :) at least i
managed to add the output stuff i mentioned before to the patch in the
meantime. so this patch should be pretty much complete.

Thanks and Cheers, Markus

 
 i'll try and explain what i want in the first place: i'm porting things
 to native windows. since windows isn't too cooperative, i'm unable to
 merge most things (and with other things, i simply don't want to), and
 thus i need to take those things from somewhere else (more or less the
 complete @system). I _am_ able to build all those things for interix
 (which is the host system in the windows case). So what i want is a
 setup of two prefix instances with a certain relation to each other: the
 native windows prefix should be able to recognize installed packages
 from the other instance, and resolve dependencies by eventually using
 the other .../var/db/...
 
 This could be (and is) quite usefull for all other platforms too. For
 exmaple i could use prefix chaining on a linux box. I could create a
 prefix containing a base system, and then for testing of
 i-don't-know-whatever, i could create another small prefix inheriting
 all installed packages from the other one. this way new prefixes can
 stay very slim, but still the parent prefix is not altered on merges.
 
 one issue not handled by the current patch is, that prefixes can have
 different CHOST/ARCH/... (which is the case with x86-interix and
 x86-winnt for example).
 
 another thing is, that i plan to add some output in the merge list,
 telling the user, which packages have been readonly-resolved from
 another portage instance. right now the dependency is treated as if it
 didn't exist.
 
 all together, i'm pretty sure i did the one or the other forbidden thing
 in my patch, but that's why i'm asking the guys-who-know :) it was hard
 enough to read the portage source and get where i am, so i'm happy with
 the result ;)
 
 Waiting for comments, suggestions, etc.
 
 Thanks in advance,
 Cheers, Markus
 
 
diff -ru portage.orig/pym/_emerge/__init__.py portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py
--- portage.orig/pym/_emerge/__init__.py	2009-03-18 10:13:34.0 +0100
+++ portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py	2009-03-20 12:08:49.0 +0100
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 import portage.xpak, commands, errno, re, socket, time
 from portage.output import blue, bold, colorize, darkblue, darkgreen, darkred, green, \
 	nc_len, red, teal, turquoise, xtermTitle, \
-	xtermTitleReset, yellow
+	xtermTitleReset, yellow, purple
 from portage.output import create_color_func
 good = create_color_func(GOOD)
 bad = create_color_func(BAD)
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
 from portage.util import cmp_sort_key, writemsg, writemsg_level
 from portage.sets import load_default_config, SETPREFIX
 from portage.sets.base import InternalPackageSet
+from portage.dbapi.vartree import vartree
 
 from itertools import chain, izip
 
@@ -4692,6 +4693,7 @@
 		self._unsatisfied_deps_for_display = []
 		self._unsatisfied_blockers_for_display = None
 		self._circular_deps_for_display = None
+		self._injected_readonly_deps_for_display = []
 		self._dep_stack = []
 		self._unsatisfied_deps = []
 		self._initially_unsatisfied_deps = []
@@ -5270,18 +5272,35 @@
 		if removal_action and self.myopts.get(--with-bdeps, y) == n:
 			edepend[DEPEND] = 
 
+		# MDUFT: create additional vartrees for every readonly root here
+		# (maybe FakeVartree's?). Then below search those trees and set
+		# mypriority.satisfied to True.
+		# the ro_vartrees instances are created below as they are needed to
+		# avoid reading vartrees of portage instances which aren't required
+		# while resolving this dependencies.
+		ro_trees = {}
+		ro_vartrees = {}
+		
+		for type in (DEPEND,RDEPEND, PDEPEND):
+			ro_trees[type] = []
+			
+			for ro_root, ro_dep_types in self.settings.readonly_roots.items():
+if type in ro_dep_types:
+	ro_trees[type].append(ro_root)
+
 		deps = (
-			(/, edepend[DEPEND],
+			(/, DEPEND,
 self._priority(buildtime=(not bdeps_optional),
 optional=bdeps_optional)),
-			(myroot, edepend[RDEPEND], self._priority(runtime=True)),
-			(myroot, edepend[PDEPEND], self._priority(runtime_post=True))
+			(myroot, RDEPEND, self._priority(runtime=True)),
+			(myroot, PDEPEND, self._priority(runtime_post=True))
 		)
 
 		debug = --debug in self.myopts
 		strict = mytype != installed
 		try:
-			for dep_root, dep_string, dep_priority in deps:
+			for dep_root, dep_type, dep_priority in deps:
+dep_string = edepend[dep_type]
 if not dep_string:
 	continue
 if debug:
@@ -5309,6 +5328,32 @@
 		if not atom.blocker and vardb.match(atom):
 			mypriority.satisfied = True
 
+		# MDUFT: How erver we do it - if we find atom beeing installed
+		# in a valid readonly root for the current dependency type, then
+		# _DONT_ call the