[gentoo-dev] is portage not so fresh?

[Sean Jensen_Grey]

Consider me a tester. I like the whole gestalt of gentoo. Your distro is doing
a lot of things right. I want to help. And I want to use.

I want a light fast distro that I can use for server deployment without a lot of
hassles. And getoo looks like it is going there.

I tried to use ebuild to get a portage back on my system.

portage > ebuild portage-1.4-r15.ebuild merge
/usr/bin/ebuild: import-settings: command not found
/usr/bin/ebuild: import-configsettings: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pkgname", line 3, in ?
    import portage
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py", line 1757, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py", line 301, in getsetting
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py", line 388, in getconfig
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/make.defaults'
!!! packagename is not a valid package name. Exiting.

is there a tar.gz I can use get my system back into a KGS (known good state) ?

I don't really know the directory hierarchy that well.

Sean.