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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
Subject: Re: portage bootstrap problem
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:52:34 +0200

 1.1

On 25-07-2008 10:11:29 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
> > [case "${withval}" in
> >   ""|yes) AC_MSG_ERROR(bad value ${withval} for --with-root-user);;
> > 
> > (the message actually says you use --with-root-user -> argument "")
> 
> Yeah, of course... this is because in the ebuild the determination of the root user argument fails (that’s the crash from above...)

ah, so you just have a broken portage installed, which I already
replaced with a newer one, because I already found the problem and fixed
it, but you report it as a problem with the newer portage.  Now it makes
sense to me.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level


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