# ChangeLog for net-misc/tightvnc # Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-misc/tightvnc/ChangeLog,v 1.147 2011/02/09 14:18:34 anarchy Exp $ 09 Feb 2011; Jory A. Pratt tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild: convert to virtual/jpeg 25 Dec 2010; Raúl Porcel tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild: Block net-misc/tigervnc 06 Mar 2010; Raúl Porcel files/tightvnc.initd: Provide valid shell, wrt bug #285705 04 Nov 2009; Raúl Porcel +files/1.3.10-sparc.patch, tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild: Add a patch to fix corruption on sparc 04 Oct 2009; Raúl Porcel -tightvnc-1.3.9-r2.ebuild, -tightvnc-1.3.9-r3.ebuild, -tightvnc-1.3.10.ebuild, tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild: Add missing dep bug #281172, remove old 02 Oct 2009; Samuli Suominen tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild: amd64 stable wrt #282704 20 Sep 2009; nixnut tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild: ppc stable #282704 07 Sep 2009; Jeroen Roovers tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild: Stable for HPPA (bug #282704). 25 Aug 2009; Raúl Porcel tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild: Fix media-libs/jpeg dependency, alpha/arm/sh/sparc/x86 stable 02 May 2009; Jeroen Roovers tightvnc-1.3.10.ebuild: Stable for HPPA (bug #266660). 26 Apr 2009; nixnut tightvnc-1.3.10.ebuild: ppc stable #266660 23 Apr 2009; Markus Meier tightvnc-1.3.10: amd64 stable, bug #266660 *tightvnc-1.3.10-r1 (20 Apr 2009) *tightvnc-1.3.9-r3 (20 Apr 2009) 20 Apr 2009; Serkan Kaba +tightvnc-1.3.9-r3.ebuild, +tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild: Add files needed for applet hosted mode. Thanks to Richard F. Ostrow Jr. for the report and help. Fixes bug #259490. 18 Apr 2009; Raúl Porcel tightvnc-1.3.10.ebuild: alpha/arm/sh/sparc/x86 stable wrt #266660 07 Mar 2009; Raúl Porcel +files/tightvnc-1.3.10-java-build.patch, tightvnc-1.3.10.ebuild: Add missing patch, bug #261516 *tightvnc-1.3.10 (06 Mar 2009) 06 Mar 2009; Raúl Porcel +files/tightvnc-1.3.10-pathfixes.patch, +tightvnc-1.3.10.ebuild: Version bump 21 Feb 2009; Raúl Porcel -tightvnc-1.3.9-r1.ebuild, tightvnc-1.3.9-r2.ebuild: sh stable 09 Jan 2009; Tobias Klausmann tightvnc-1.3.9-r2.ebuild: Stable on alpha, bug #252368 07 Jan 2009; Jeroen Roovers tightvnc-1.3.9-r2.ebuild: Stable for HPPA (bug #252368). 01 Jan 2009; Raúl Porcel +files/1.3.9-sh.patch, tightvnc-1.3.9-r2.ebuild: Add patch for compiling on sh, mark ~sh 28 Dec 2008; Joseph Jezak tightvnc-1.3.9-r2.ebuild: Marked ppc stable for bug #252368. 25 Dec 2008; Markus Meier tightvnc-1.3.9-r2.ebuild: amd64 stable, bug #252368 24 Dec 2008; Raúl Porcel tightvnc-1.3.9-r2.ebuild: arm/sparc/x86 stable wrt #252368 24 Sep 2008; Raúl Porcel +files/1.3.9-arm.patch, tightvnc-1.3.9-r2.ebuild: Add a patch from Debian to make it work on arm, keyword ~arm *tightvnc-1.3.9-r2 (11 Sep 2008) 11 Sep 2008; Alistair Bush +files/tightvnc-1.3.9-java-build.patch, +tightvnc-1.3.9-r2.ebuild: Bump tightvnc to fix java support. 14 Jul 2008; Raúl Porcel files/tightvnc.initd: Fix init script, bug #231492 29 Feb 2008; Carsten Lohrke tightvnc-1.3.9.ebuild, tightvnc-1.3.9-r1.ebuild: Remove icon extension from desktop entry to match Icon Theme Specification. 14 Feb 2008; Steve Dibb tightvnc-1.3.9-r1.ebuild: amd64 stable, bug 208562 06 Feb 2008; nixnut tightvnc-1.3.9-r1.ebuild: stable on ppc wrt bug #208562 04 Feb 2008; Jeroen Roovers tightvnc-1.3.9-r1.ebuild: Stable for HPPA (bug #208562). 02 Feb 2008; Raúl Porcel tightvnc-1.3.9.ebuild, tightvnc-1.3.9-r1.ebuild: Fix blocker, bug #207259 23 Jan 2008; Raúl Porcel tightvnc-1.3.9-r1.ebuild: alpha/sparc/x86 stable 27 Dec 2007; Raúl Porcel tightvnc-1.3.9.ebuild, tightvnc-1.3.9-r1.ebuild: Block net-misc/xf4vnc as it collides, bug #203513 *tightvnc-1.3.9-r1 (17 Oct 2007) 17 Oct 2007; Steve Dibb +tightvnc-1.3.9-r1.ebuild: Fix DEPEND/RDEPEND 27 Jun 2007; Joe Peterson files/1.3.9-fbsd.patch, tightvnc-1.3.9.ebuild: Use /usr/bin/cpp rather than /usr/libexec/cpp on FreeBSD (thanks to ebfe for patch); add ~x86-fbsd keyword; (bug #171945) 26 Jun 2007; Raúl Porcel -files/tightvnc-1.2.9-amd64.patch, -files/tightvnc-1.2.9-gcc34.patch, -files/tightvnc-1.2.9-gentoo.security.patch, -files/tightvnc-1.2.9-imake-tmpdir.patch, -files/tightvnc-1.2.9-pathfixes.patch, -files/tightvnc-1.3.8-amd64.patch, -files/tightvnc-ppcsparc-server.patch, -files/x86.patch, -tightvnc-1.2.9-r4.ebuild, -tightvnc-1.3.8-r1.ebuild: drop old, yay 26 Jun 2007; Joseph Jezak tightvnc-1.3.9.ebuild: Marked ppc stable for bug #182789. 24 Jun 2007; Fabian Groffen tightvnc-1.3.8-r1.ebuild, tightvnc-1.3.9.ebuild: Dropped ppc-macos keyword 21 Jun 2007; Jeroen Roovers ChangeLog: Stable for HPPA (bug #182789). 21 Jun 2007; Gustavo Zacarias tightvnc-1.3.9.ebuild: Stable on sparc wrt #182789 21 Jun 2007; Christoph Mende tightvnc-1.3.9.ebuild: Stable on amd64 wrt bug 182789 21 Jun 2007; Raúl Porcel tightvnc-1.3.9.ebuild: alpha/x86 stable wrt #182789 31 May 2007; Raúl Porcel +files/1.3.9-fbsd.patch, tightvnc-1.3.9.ebuild: Add patch to compile on fbsd, thanks to ebfe for the patch, bug 171945 31 May 2007; Raúl Porcel tightvnc-1.3.8-r1.ebuild, tightvnc-1.3.9.ebuild: Remove userland_Darwin thing as it breaks for g/fbsd 24 May 2007; Christian Faulhammer ChangeLog: corrected ChangeLog, so it conforms to our standards 08 May 2007; Raúl Porcel tightvnc-1.3.9.ebuild: Don't apply patch for amd64, since it's applied upstream, bug 177683 *tightvnc-1.3.9 (08 May 2007) 08 May 2007; Raúl Porcel +tightvnc-1.3.9.ebuild: Version bump 18 Apr 2007; Raúl Porcel -tightvnc-1.2.9-r3.ebuild: old 16 Apr 2007; Bryan Østergaard tightvnc-1.2.9-r4.ebuild: Stable on Alpha, bug 174200. 13 Apr 2007; Tobias Scherbaum tightvnc-1.2.9-r4.ebuild: ppc stable, bug #174200 13 Apr 2007; Gustavo Zacarias tightvnc-1.2.9-r4.ebuild: Stable on sparc wrt security #174200 12 Apr 2007; Raúl Porcel +files/tightvnc.confd, +files/tightvnc.initd, tightvnc-1.2.9-r4.ebuild, -tightvnc-1.3.8.ebuild, tightvnc-1.3.8-r1.ebuild: Add init scripts, bug 39023 and remove vulnerable version 12 Apr 2007; Jeroen Roovers tightvnc-1.3.8-r1.ebuild: Stable for HPPA (bug #174200). 12 Apr 2007; Peter Weller tightvnc-1.2.9-r4.ebuild: Stable on amd64 wrt bug 174200 *tightvnc-1.3.8-r1 (11 Apr 2007) 11 Apr 2007; Raúl Porcel -files/tightvnc-1.2.9-server-CVE-2007-1003.patch, -files/tightvnc-1.2.9-server-CVE-2007-1351-1352.patch, +files/server-CVE-2007-1003.patch, +files/server-CVE-2007-1351-1352.patch, tightvnc-1.2.9-r4.ebuild, +tightvnc-1.3.8-r1.ebuild: 1.3.8 is affected by that security bug too 11 Apr 2007; Markus Ullmann tightvnc-1.2.9-r4.ebuild: Stable on x86 wrt security bug #174200 *tightvnc-1.2.9-r4 (11 Apr 2007) 11 Apr 2007; Raúl Porcel +files/tightvnc-1.2.9-server-CVE-2007-1003.patch, +files/tightvnc-1.2.9-server-CVE-2007-1351-1352.patch, +tightvnc-1.2.9-r4.ebuild: New security patches from Mandriva, bug 174200 26 Feb 2007; Raúl Porcel +files/vncviewer.png, tightvnc-1.2.9-r3.ebuild, tightvnc-1.3.8.ebuild: Add icons 06 Feb 2007; Raúl Porcel -files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7-amd64.patch, -files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7-darwin.patch, -files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7-gentoo.diff, -files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7-gentoo.security.patch, -files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7-imake-tmpdir.patch, -files/vncserver-1.3.patch, -tightvnc-1.3_alpha7.ebuild: drop old 06 Feb 2007; Jeroen Roovers tightvnc-1.3.8.ebuild: Stable for HPPA (bug #165610). 03 Feb 2007; Raúl Porcel files/tightvnc-1.2.9-pathfixes.patch: fix fontpath patch 21 Jan 2007; Raúl Porcel tightvnc-1.2.9-r3.ebuild, tightvnc-1.3.8.ebuild: Add x11-apps/xsetroot as a RDEPEND, thanks to t35t0r for reporting, bug 163035 16 Jan 2007; Raúl Porcel files/tightvnc-1.2.9-pathfixes.patch: Fix vncClasses variable in the patch, thanks to Josh bug 162448 11 Nov 2006; Stefan Schweizer -files/tightvnc-1.2.9-gentoo.diff, -files/tightvnc-1.2.9-gentoo-2.diff, -files/vncserver-1.2.patch, -tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild, -tightvnc-1.2.9-r2.ebuild: old 10 Nov 2006; Alexander H. Færøy tightvnc-1.2.9-r3.ebuild: Stable on Alpha. Bug 138779. 05 Nov 2006; Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh +files/tightvnc-1.3.8-mips.patch, tightvnc-1.3.8.ebuild: Allow to compile on mips 01 Nov 2006; Jeroen Roovers files/x86.patch: Fix Xvnc build system for HPPA. 14 Oct 2006; Jason Wever tightvnc-1.2.9-r3.ebuild: Stable on SPARC wrt bug #138779. 13 Oct 2006; Stephanie Lockwood-Childs tightvnc-1.2.9-r3.ebuild: stable on ppc, thanks to Matti Bickel for helping test (Bug #138779) 11 Oct 2006; tightvnc-1.2.9-r3.ebuild: Stable on x86, bug #138779. 09 Oct 2006; Simon Stelling tightvnc-1.2.9-r3.ebuild: stable on amd64 09 Oct 2006; Stefan Schweizer +files/tightvnc-1.2.9-pathfixes.patch: add missing patch *tightvnc-1.2.9-r3 (05 Oct 2006) 05 Oct 2006; Stefan Schweizer +tightvnc-1.2.9-r3.ebuild: revision bump thanks to armin76, fixes bug 78385 *tightvnc-1.3.8 (04 Oct 2006) 04 Oct 2006; Stefan Schweizer +files/tightvnc-1.3.8-amd64.patch, +files/tightvnc-1.3.8-darwin.patch, +files/tightvnc-1.3.8-imake-tmpdir.patch, +files/tightvnc-1.3.8-pathfixes.patch, +tightvnc-1.3.8.ebuild: version bump thanks to armin76 09 Aug 2006; Thomas Cort tightvnc-1.2.9-r2.ebuild: Stable on amd64 wrt Bug #138779. 06 Aug 2006; Jason Wever +files/tightvnc-ppcsparc-server.patch, tightvnc-1.2.9-r2.ebuild: Stable on SPARC wrt bug #138779. Also add a patch to fix display corruption in vncserver for SPARC and PPC. 05 Aug 2006; Michael Hanselmann tightvnc-1.2.9-r2.ebuild: Stable on ppc. 03 Aug 2006; Joshua Jackson tightvnc-1.2.9-r2.ebuild: Stable x86; bug #138779 22 Jul 2006; Gustavo Felisberto ; +files/tightvnc-1.2.9-gentoo-2.diff, +tightvnc-1.2.9-r2.ebuild: Added -r2 that fixes issue with new X files location. Thanks to Coornaert David in bug #138779. 06 Jun 2006; Guy Martin tightvnc-1.3_alpha7.ebuild: Stable on hppa. *tightvnc-1.2.9-r2 (23 Apr 2006) 23 Apr 2006; Daniel Goller +files/vncserver-1.2.patch, +files/vncserver-1.3.patch, metadata.xml, +tightvnc-1.2.9-r2.ebuild, tightvnc-1.3_alpha7.ebuild: Adjust vncserver script to work with mod X, thanks to Maxxer and Martin von Gagern, adjust 1.2.9-r1 to have it use mod X deps 30 Mar 2006; Daniel Goller metadata.xml: Remove Aliz since he no longer maintains this 14 Feb 2006; Daniel Goller -files/tightvnc-1.2.8-gentoo.diff, -files/tightvnc-1.2.8-gentoo.security.patch, -tightvnc-1.2.8.ebuild, tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: Also cleanup of old version 14 Feb 2006; Daniel Goller tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: Making gcc patch conditional 11 Feb 2006; Daniel Goller +files/tightvnc-1.2.9-amd64.patch, +files/tightvnc-1.2.9-gcc34.patch, tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: Porting patches to 1.2.9-r1 closing bug#98536 11 Feb 2006; Daniel Goller -files/tightvnc-1.2.7-gentoo.diff, -files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha5-gcc34.patch, -files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha5-gentoo.diff, -files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha5-gentoo.security.patch, -files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha5-imake-tmpdir.patch, -files/tightvnc-gentoo.diff: Dump more unneeded files 11 Feb 2006; Daniel Goller +files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7-amd64.patch, -tightvnc-1.3_alpha5.ebuild, tightvnc-1.3_alpha7.ebuild: Applying patch to fix Bug#82583, thanks to Bradley Broom. Cleanup of old dev version. 17 Dec 2005; Joshua Baergen tightvnc-1.3_alpha7.ebuild: xmkmf is now part of x11-misc/imake. 14 Dec 2005; Donnie Berkholz ; tightvnc-1.3_alpha7.ebuild: (#114254) Add modular X dependencies. 05 Nov 2005; Fabian Groffen +files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7-darwin.patch, tightvnc-1.3_alpha7.ebuild: Added patches for Darwin for source and ebuild and marked ~ppc-macos (bug #89098) 25 Oct 2005; Daniel Goller ChangeLog: Remove the 4.0 folder too 25 Oct 2005; Daniel Goller -files/tightvnc-4.0_gcc-3.4.patch, -files/tightvnc_cvs20031113.patch.bz2, -files/tightvnc-4.0_linux-headers.patch: Punting old files, including evil binary leftover patch.bz2 14 Aug 2005; Daniel Goller ChangeLog: Mnaifest signing with -Y if pinentry likes that over -X No, it didnt like it, requiring local signing. 14 Aug 2005; Daniel Goller tightvnc-1.3_alpha7.ebuild: Added einfo regarding 'server' USE flag. 07 Aug 2005; Daniel Goller tightvnc-1.3_alpha7.ebuild: Add server flag 06 Aug 2005; Daniel Goller ChangeLog: Adding Manifest locally since it fails remotely *tightvnc-1.3_alpha7 (06 Aug 2005) 06 Aug 2005; Daniel Goller +files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7-gentoo.diff, +files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7-gentoo.security.patch, +files/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7-imake-tmpdir.patch, +tightvnc-1.3_alpha7.ebuild: Added 1.3 dev 7 27 Jul 2005; Jeremy Huddleston tightvnc-1.3_alpha5.ebuild: Use the correct toolchain compiler. 30 May 2005; Sven Wegener tightvnc-1.3_alpha5.ebuild: Moved from gcc.eclass to toolchain-funcs.eclass, bug #92745. 27 Apr 2005; Simon Stelling tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: stable on amd64 29 Dec 2004; Ciaran McCreesh : Change encoding to UTF-8 for GLEP 31 compliance 11 Nov 2004; Bryan Østergaard tightvnc-1.3_alpha5.ebuild: Stable on alpha. 03 Nov 2004; Gustavo Zacarias tightvnc-1.3_alpha5.ebuild: Stable on sparc 30 Oct 2004; Daniel Goller tightvnc-1.3_alpha5.ebuild: Stable on Maintainer's archs 23 Oct 2004; Simon Stelling tightvnc-1.3_alpha5.ebuild: removed amd64-'fix' again 18 Oct 2004; Daniel Goller metadata.xml, tightvnc-1.3_alpha5.ebuild, -tightvnc-4.0_beta20031113.ebuild: physically removed realvnc 4 beta from folder fix up of changelog readd the lost keywords into 1.3_alpha5 15 Oct 2004; Daniel Goller : Cleaning realvnc out of tightvnc, too buggy to maintain, 1.3 dev5 is here in its place. 02 Oct 2004; Donnie Berkholz ; tightvnc-1.2.8.ebuild: x11-base/xfree -> virtual/x11. 26 Sep 2004; Daniel Goller tightvnc-1.3_alpha5.ebuild: Some QA and simplifications 21 Sep 2004; Daniel Goller tightvnc-1.3_alpha5.ebuild: dont apply gcc3.4 patch unconditionally *tightvnc-1.3_alpha5 (19 Sep 2004) 19 Sep 2004; Daniel Goller tightvnc-1.3_alpha5.ebuild: header error :/ , fixed 19 Sep 2004; Daniel Goller : new version 1.3_alpha5 + gcc3.4 patch 28 Jul 2004; Travis Tilley tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: removed amd64 'fix' that broke compiling on amd64 and re-added ~amd64 keyword 08 Jun 2004; Bryan Østergaard tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: Stable on alpha. 24 May 2004; Daniel Ahlberg tightvnc-4.0_beta20031113.ebuild: Added patches for linux 2.6 headers and GCC 3.4 by Ed Catmur in #51701 and #51601. 11 Apr 2004; Jason Wever tightvnc-4.0_beta20031113.ebuild: Changed x11-base/xfree dep to virtual/x11 for 4.0 beta build. 10 Apr 2004; Scott W Taylor tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: Changed depend from xfree to virtual/x11 02 Mar 2004; Jason Wever tightvnc-4.0_beta20031113.ebuild: Added ~sparc keyword as it fixes the vncserver character flip problem. 02 Mar 2004; Jason Wever tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: Stable on sparc. 27 Feb 2004; Daniel Ahlberg tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: x86 unmask. 15 Jan 2003; Daniel Ahlberg files/tightvnc-1.2.9-gentoo.diff: Change fontpath, closing #22024. *tightvnc-4.0_beta20031113 (27 Nov 2003) 27 Nov 2003; Daniel Ahlberg tightvnc-4.0_beta20031113: New cvs snapshot together with a cleaner ebuild. WARNING, some features are missing in 4.0. Also removed some old ebuilds. 13 Nov 2003; Aron Griffis tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: Unbreak this ebuild for architectures other than amd64... Maybe this was commited accidentally by Daniel below? *tightvnc-4.0_beta20031031 (03 Nov 2003) 03 Nov 2003; Daniel Ahlberg tightvnc-4.0_beta20031031.ebuild : Add version that compiles on amd64. Very big and ugly at the momemnt, expect cleanups soon. 18 Sep 2003; Daniel Ahlberg tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild : Fix unpacking. *tightvnc-1.2.9-r1 (17 Sep 2003) 17 Sep 2003; Daniel Ahlberg tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild : Added patch from bartron , closing #23843. *tightvnc-1.2.9 (07 Aug 2003) 07 Aug 2003; Daniel Ahlberg tightvnc-1.2.9.ebuild : Version bump. 12 Jun 2003; tightvnc-1.2.3-r2.ebuild: fix Header 04 May 2003; Daniel Ahlberg tightvnc-1.2.8.ebuild : Do not allow tightvnc and vnc to be installed at the same time as they overwrite each others files. Closes #15152. *tightvnc-1.2.8 (21 Feb 2003) 21 Feb 2003; Daniel Ahlberg : Security update. *tightvnc-1.2.7 (17 Jan 2002) 17 Jan 2002; Bart Verwilst : new ebuild 06 Dec 2002; Rodney Rees : changed sparc ~sparc keywords *tightvnc-1.2.6 (28 Sep 2002) 28 Sep 2002; Bart Verwilst New ebuild *tightvnc-1.2.5-r1 (26 Aug 2002) 28 Aug 2002; Bart Verwilst tightvnc-1.2.3-r2.ebuild, tightvnc-1.2.5-r1.ebuild : Duplicate patch entry removed. 26 Aug 2002; Donny Davies tightvnc-1.2.5-r1.ebuild : Squash #6814. *tightvnc-1.2.5 (18 Aug 2002) New version *tightvnc-1.2.3-r2 (12 Jul 2002) 12 Jul 2002; Grant Goodyear ChangeLog : closes bug #4603; thanks to Ivan C. *tightvnc-1.2.3-r1 (3 Jun 2002) 09 Jul 2002; phoen][x tightvnc-1.2.3-r1.ebuild : Added KEYWORDS, LICENSE. 3 Jun 2002; Ryan Phillips tightvnc-1.2.3-r1.ebuild : Fixed installation procedure. Fixes #3337 27 Mar 2002; Seemant Kulleen tightvnc-1.2.3-r1.ebuild : tightvnc needs libjpeg in order to compile correctly, so it has been added as a dependency. Thanks to kpullin@socal.rr.com for spotting it. *tightvnc-1.2.3 (25 Mar 2002) 09 Jul 2002; phoen][x tightvnc-1.2.3.ebuild : Added KEYWORDS, LICENSE. 25 Mar 2002; Bart Verwilst ChangeLog : Upgraded to 1.2.3, and removed the old 2 versions.. Since 1.2.2 never compiled, the TightVNC people assured me 1.2.3 fixes all the problems, and it does! :o) So we have a fully working version for Gentoo 1.0 :o) *tightvnc-1.2.1 (1 Feb 2002) 1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin ChangeLog : Added initial ChangeLog which should be updated whenever the package is updated in any way. This changelog is targetted to users. This means that the comments should well explained and written in clean English. The details about writing correct changelogs are explained in the skel.ChangeLog file which you can find in the root directory of the portage repository.