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From: Markus Duft <mduft@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-alt] portage bootstrap problem
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:36:29
Message-Id: 012c01c8ee39$1f7ef660$5e7ce320$@org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] portage bootstrap problem by Fabian Groffen
1 >
2 > On 25-07-2008 10:11:29 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
3 > > > [case "${withval}" in
4 > > > ""|yes) AC_MSG_ERROR(bad value ${withval} for --with-root-user);;
5 > > >
6 > > > (the message actually says you use --with-root-user -> argument "")
7 > >
8 > > Yeah, of course... this is because in the ebuild the determination of
9 > the root user argument fails (that’s the crash from above...)
10 >
11 > ah, so you just have a broken portage installed, which I already
12 > replaced with a newer one, because I already found the problem and
13 > fixed
14 > it, but you report it as a problem with the newer portage. Now it
15 > makes
16 > sense to me.
17
18 Hehe, yes. But actually the installed and to-be-installed version are the same... while bootstrapping I restarted at a certain stage, and it wanted to re-emerge portage...
19
20 Cheers, Markus
21
22 >
23 >
24 > --
25 > Fabian Groffen
26 > Gentoo on a different level

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Re: [gentoo-alt] portage bootstrap problem Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>