Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 14-10-2009 17:43:32 +0200, Heiko Przybyl wrote:
>> iirc according to truss it hangs in portage.__init__._test_pty_eof()  
>> when writing 'test_string = 2 * "blah blah blah\n"' to the terminal.  
>> If you make that method just return True the delay vanishes. Portage  
>> still seems to work then.
> 
> I guess this means openpty is also not working like expected on FreeBSD.

What exactly does this command show on your platform:
$ python -c 'import platform; print platform.system()'

This would be the item to add here:
http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/browser/trunk/prefix-overlay/sys-apps/portage/files/portage-2.2.00.14487-brokentty-more-platforms.patch

/haubi/