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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
Subject: Re: etc-update looks for $EPREFIX/$EPREFIX
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:59:51 +0200

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On 17-07-2008 15:54:35 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> Hi Lothar,
> 
> On 17-07-2008 15:53:00 +0200, Lothar Braun wrote:
> > I just bootstraped on Mac OS X and tried to run etc-update in order to  
> > update the configuration files. But etc-update aborts with the error  
> > message:
> >
> > ERROR: Need write access to /Users/braun/Gentoo//Users/braun/Gentoo/etc
> >
> > So it actually looks in $EPREFIX/$EPREFIX/etc insteed of $EPREFIX/etc.  
> > Did i make something wrong during the bootstrap process or is this a  
> > problem with etc-update?
> 
> Thanks for the report.  It's probably a problem I recently introduced.
> I'll look at it.

Quick workaround is to remove the following two lines from etc-update:

# quick hack to get prefix support in 
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=${PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT}${EPREFIX}/ 

the "quick hack" is no longer necessary


-- 
Fabian Groffen
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