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From: Markus Duft <mduft@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-alt] FW: portage badly broken - is this a prefix issue?
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:42:31
Message-Id: 00f801c8ed89$feb97a90$fc2c6fb0$@org
1 >
2 > Hi
3 >
4 > Seems that portage (I have version Portage 2.2.00.11125-prefix) is
5 > broken. Seems that since this version (or maybe a few versions
6 > earlier), portage dooms the environment for fetching files. The
7 > environment misses the proxy variables (http_proxy, ftp_proxy,
8 > no_proxy), and thus portage cannot fetch anything from behind a
9 > proxy... it seems that also the PATH variable isn't set up correctly,
10 > since portage misses the wget from it's prefix, and instead uses
11 > another one (cannot tell which one though...)
12
13 Forget about the last one (not using prefix wget)... it was my own stupidity
14 that caught me :) *_proxy are still unset however, and I cannot fetch...
15
16 >
17 > Any ideas?
18 >
19 > Cheers, Markus

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