RE: [gentoo-alt] portage bootstrap problem

[Markus Duft]

>
> On 23-07-2008 15:25:42 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
> > "/tools/mduft/prefix-launcher-1rc.20080717/i586-pc-
> interix5.2/lib/portage/py
> > m/portage/__init__.py", line 1138, in __init__
> >     check_var_directory("PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT", config_root +
> EPREFIX_LSTRIP)
>
> I don't have this line, so I guess this has already been fixed in the
> latest snapshot.
>
> > and after that emerge fails with:
> >
> > configure: error: bad value  for --with-root-user
>
> that sounds familiar, but I thought I fixed that before as well, what
> you do is probably either one of these:
>
> [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...)

Cheers, Markus

>
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