From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RfyuA-0000qp-S7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:11:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E69ED21C14B; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A384321C21A for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:10:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 617) id 393A41B401B; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:10:40 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:10:40 +0000 From: Sven Vermeulen To: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Re: Portage per-package environment/behavior Message-ID: <20111228191040.GA10551@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org References: <20111228101449.GA912@siphos.be> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 2c60209c-b420-440d-b496-b987fcf05657 X-Archives-Hash: 5dff41b8731af7adb95a31c8f21d2da0 On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 05:47:18PM +0000, Duncan wrote: > IIRC this (and /etc/portage/patches) was originally deliberately kept an > "undocumented feature", to avoid trouble with missing info in bug > reports, since emerge info didn't report package specific information. This "/etc/portage/patches" thingie is something that the ebuilds must support themselves afaik (call epatch_user), although I can imagine a way to have it triggered for all systems by fiddling with /etc/portage/env too ;-) > Now that portage has emerge --info and it's what's requested in the > usual output when a build aborts (tho AFAIK bugzilla still mentions > emerge info output only), and the logs themselves are rather better at > reporting user patches (for the patches subdir), that's not so much of a > problem, and the portage documentation itself mentions both usages of the > env subdir (tho not the patches subdir since that's still ebuild > activated). We might want to catch some bugzie admins then and suggest to update their page ;-) Wkr, Sven Vermeulen