On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:17:52 +0200 Andreas Simbuerger wrote: > On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 22:08 +0200, Justin wrote: > > Andreas Simbuerger schrieb: > > > Greetings, > > > > > > Is it possible to change the install-directory of ebuilds? > > > Let's say for example: > > > > > > TODIR=/usr/local/lib emerge python > > > > > > I tried to find a clue within the Gentoo Documentation and the > > > Forums but still no idea how to do that. > > > > > > ----- > > > As it is my first post to a mailing list, i hope it's not kind of > > > a dumb question that can be solved by a "RTFM" ;-) > > > ----- > > > > > > - Andreas > > > > > > > > > > > What really do you want to do? Whats your intention behind? > > I had some trouble during upgrading Python2.4 to Python2.5 > where some ebuilds installed themselves to /usr/local/lib > depending ebuilds were looking into /usr/lib. > > Whilst having no idea how i messed that one up (aside from accepting > ~amd64 ebuilds ;-)) i want to correct that by remerging > the messed up packages with the correct(?) path. > > In addition i try to solve the problems by doing an > emerge -eaD world > right at the moment > > - Andreas
H'lo Andreas, Here're some ideas, for whatever they're worth: Installs to /usr/local/lib sounds like b0rked ebuilds. I'd try using equery to find the ebuilds that installed "bad" files. Then I'd look for "/usr/local" in those ebuilds and fix them. Putting the fixed ebuilds in /usr/local/portage/..., rather than just changing /usr/portage/..., might be even better. Lastly, I'd report the b0rked ebuilds on bugzilla.gentoo.org and would include the fixes with the reports. Looking on my system, all that /usr/local/lib is /usr/local/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/doxypy-0.3rc2-py2.5.egg-info which appears to have come from manually installing ~/Download/doxypy-0.3rc2.tar.gz, i.e. the one such file I have isn't from an ebuild at all. Might that be what's happened to you? HTH, David
