Re: [gentoo-alt] portage bootstrap problem

[Fabian Groffen]

On 25-07-2008 11:30:48 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
> >
> > 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...

that's weird, becuse the offending code is not in that version ?!?


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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level