pena poi # ebuild poi-2.5.1.ebuild clean then in tmp: pena portage # pwd /var/tmp/portage pena portage # du -sh poi-2.5.1/ 89M poi-2.5.1/ So ebuild <ebuild> clean does not work. It is not specific to this particular ebuild because I it has been broken with others too. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ebuild <ebuild> unpack 2. ebuild <ebuild> clean Expected Results: The temporary directory should be cleaned pena portage # emerge info Portage 2.0.53_rc3 (!/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/src/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache cvs distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms sign strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://lame.lut.fi/linux/gentoo " LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf-8" LINGUAS="fi" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s" PKGDIR="/home/pkg/" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/mnt/checkouts/gentoo-x86" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/checkouts/overlays/betelgeuse /mnt/checkouts/overlays/gentopia" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acl acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups dbus divx4linux dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss esd fam firefox foomaticdb freetype gif gstreamer gtk2 hal java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libg++ libwww logitech-mouse lzo mad makecheck mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2 mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses network nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png qt quicktime readline real rtc ruby samba slang spell sse sse2 ssl subversion svg symlink tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xv xvid zlib video_cards_nvidia linguas_fi userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
Reopen if it fails with .53_rc4
It doesn't. Sorry about taking your time.