On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:32:06 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| > > 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.It's in The Doc[1]. Not that that's official documentation, but you might find it more useful in a few areas (as in, the ones that've been written)... [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/IGNORE_the-doc/ (read the disclaimer!) -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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