Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Markus Duft <mduft@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-alt] portage bootstrap problem
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:32:35
Message-Id: 012d01c8ee49$5ac8ee00$105aca00$@org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] portage bootstrap problem by Fabian Groffen
1 >
2 > On 25-07-2008 11:30:48 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
3 > > >
4 > > > On 25-07-2008 10:11:29 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
5 > > > > > [case "${withval}" in
6 > > > > > ""|yes) AC_MSG_ERROR(bad value ${withval} for --with-root-
7 > user);;
8 > > > > >
9 > > > > > (the message actually says you use --with-root-user -> argument
10 > "")
11 > > > >
12 > > > > Yeah, of course... this is because in the ebuild the
13 > determination of
14 > > > the root user argument fails (that’s the crash from above...)
15 > > >
16 > > > ah, so you just have a broken portage installed, which I already
17 > > > replaced with a newer one, because I already found the problem and
18 > > > fixed
19 > > > it, but you report it as a problem with the newer portage. Now it
20 > > > makes
21 > > > sense to me.
22 > >
23 > > Hehe, yes. But actually the installed and to-be-installed version are
24 > the same... while bootstrapping I restarted at a certain stage, and it
25 > wanted to re-emerge portage...
26 >
27 > that's weird, becuse the offending code is not in that version ?!?
28
29 Hmmmmm.... strange indeed...
30
31 >
32 >
33 > --
34 > Fabian Groffen
35 > Gentoo on a different level