Re: [gentoo-alt] --with-root-user

[Fabian Groffen]

On 02-04-2008 15:22:27 +0200, Duft Markus wrote:
> > Feels like quite ancient to me, yes, but IIRC, portage.const should
> > exist there too.  Does 'import portage' work with your (bootstrapped)
> > python?  I think it works for noone during bootstrapping actually,
> > unless python (from the tree) is emerged before reinstalling portage.
> > I think my bootstrap docs at least for Mac OS X and Solaris (the only
> > two that are possibly correct by the way) pull in python before
> > portage reemerges itself (step 1.10 in the Solaris bootstrap) hence
> > it works there.  Maybe that's not an option for you, then we have to
> > make a workaround.
>
> I now tried to emerge python as first package, before portage. This
> results in the same, since i have problems setting the PATH right. The
> portage i use to bootstrap the prefix comes from prefix-launcher, and
> (as all portage's do) insists on setting the PATH to some known value
> (which doesn't include the dirs of the to-bootstrap prefix, and hence
> misses the just installed python, but rather gets the python 2.4 from
> prefix-launcher.

a) muck with DEFAULT_PATH
b) configure your bootstrap-portage differently (--default-path= or
something) to include the right path before your prefix-launcher path


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Fabian Groffen
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