In other stages, we upgrade/re-emerge portage before doing anything else, but we don't seem to do that in stage1. This is needed to resolve the coreutils/automake problem we've been encountering lately. I'm attaching a patch to upgrade portage in the extracted stage3 seed before emerging stuff to ROOT.
Created attachment 109901 [details, diff] patch to upgrade portage in stage1 target before emerging stuff to ROOT
Added to SVN for 2.0.3's release...
This is fixed in 2.0.3 which should be hitting the tree shortly.