On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 05:07:44PM -0500, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote:
> What happens:
> 1. Look in DISTDIR for files (as normal)
> 2. If not found, traverse through all directories in DISTDIRS looking 
> for files.
> 3. Set a new environment variable (DDIR) pointing to correct directory 
> holding the files.
> 4. ebuild.sh will use DDIR if set instead of DISTDIR.
This seems to be a kludge. What if a package requires multiple source
files that are in different DISTDIRs? Does that work?

One further this with this. Which DISTDIR is used for live CVS ebuilds
(that checkout to $DISTDIR/cvs-src)

> Notes:
> 1. I couldn't really figure out what the envirnoment variables A and 
> AA were meant for.
I believe 'A' is a list of all new SRC_URIs, and AA is a list of ALL
SRC_URIs. I may be wrong tho, that was from quite a while ago that I dug
into portage.

> 3. How can I get the latest cvs copy of portage as I would assume 
> people would want a diff against that.
http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-src/portage/

> This will need further testing/fixing as I've only spent a few hours 
> on it and I'm a non-python user.
> 
> Anyone doing something like this or anyone have any comments?
See this bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10803

I think being able to have multiple DISTDIRS is a very good move, I was
wanting previously in Portage, but I never got around to coding it up.

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