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? Regards, Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
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