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From: "Markus Duft" <mduft@g.o>
Subject: RE: portage bootstrap problem
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:30:48 +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.

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...

Cheers, Markus

> 
> 
> --
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level




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