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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] etc-update looks for $EPREFIX/$EPREFIX
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:59:53
Message-Id: 20080717135951.GD941@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] etc-update looks for $EPREFIX/$EPREFIX by Fabian Groffen
1 On 17-07-2008 15:54:35 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > Hi Lothar,
3 >
4 > On 17-07-2008 15:53:00 +0200, Lothar Braun wrote:
5 > > I just bootstraped on Mac OS X and tried to run etc-update in order to
6 > > update the configuration files. But etc-update aborts with the error
7 > > message:
8 > >
9 > > ERROR: Need write access to /Users/braun/Gentoo//Users/braun/Gentoo/etc
10 > >
11 > > So it actually looks in $EPREFIX/$EPREFIX/etc insteed of $EPREFIX/etc.
12 > > Did i make something wrong during the bootstrap process or is this a
13 > > problem with etc-update?
14 >
15 > Thanks for the report. It's probably a problem I recently introduced.
16 > I'll look at it.
17
18 Quick workaround is to remove the following two lines from etc-update:
19
20 # quick hack to get prefix support in
21 PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=${PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT}${EPREFIX}/
22
23 the "quick hack" is no longer necessary
24
25
26 --
27 Fabian Groffen
28 Gentoo on a different level
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Re: [gentoo-alt] etc-update looks for $EPREFIX/$EPREFIX Lothar Braun <lothar@×××××××.de>