I installed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Tiger 10.4.3 on a PowerBook G4 2. Apply all Apple updates until 20051205 3. Install gentoo-macos-20041118.dmg 4. emerge --sync (I manually rsynced portage tree 20051205 to /usr/portage) 5. run sh /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap-macos.sh 6. emerge portage to avoid bug 79788 7. do NOT YET emerge system 8. run etc-update Actual Results: neo:/usr/portage root# etc-update /usr/sbin/etc-update: line 377: declare: 0": syntax error in expression (error token is """) Scanning Configuration files... Automerging trivial changes in: etc-update.conf The following is the list of files which need updating, each configuration file is followed by a list of possible replacement files. 1) /etc/dispatch-conf.conf /etc/._cfg0000_dispatch-conf.conf 2) /etc/make.conf.example /etc/._cfg0000_make.conf.example Please select a file to edit by entering the corresponding number. (don't use -3 or -5 if you're unsure what to do) (-1 to exit) (-3 to auto merge all remaining files) (-5 to auto-merge AND not use 'mv -i'): 1 /usr/sbin/etc-update: line 243: less": command not found /usr/sbin/etc-update: line 404: 11174 Broken pipe ${showdiffcmd} 1) Replace original with update 2) Delete update, keeping original as is 3) Interactively merge original with update 4) Show differences again Please select from the menu above (-1 to ignore this update): 1 Replacing /etc/dispatch-conf.conf with /etc/._cfg0000_dispatch-conf.conf mv: illegal option -- " usage: mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory The following is the list of files which need updating, each [...and so on...] Expected Results: neo:/usr/portage root# etc-update Scanning Configuration files... Automerging trivial changes in: make.conf.example The following is the list of files which need updating, each configuration file is followed by a list of possible replacement files. 1) /etc/dispatch-conf.conf /etc/._cfg0000_dispatch-conf.conf Please select a file to edit by entering the corresponding number. (don't use -3 or -5 if you're unsure what to do) (-1 to exit) (-3 to auto merge all remaining files) (-5 to auto-merge AND not use 'mv -i'): 1 1) Replace original with update 2) Delete update, keeping original as is 3) Interactively merge original with update 4) Show differences again Please select from the menu above (-1 to ignore this update): 1 Replacing /etc/dispatch-conf.conf with /etc/._cfg0000_dispatch-conf.conf overwrite /etc/dispatch-conf.conf? (y/n [n]) y Exiting: Nothing left to do; exiting. :) The function get_config in etc-update uses sed to read settings such as the pager from etc-update.conf. The version of sed in Tiger 10.4.3 with all recent Apple patches applied interprets the statement sed -ne "s/^ *$item *= *\([\"']\{0,1\}\)\(.*\)\1/\2/p" wrong: it replaces pager="less" with less" instead of less I played around with it a bit and found that this works fine: sed -ne "s/^ *$item *= *[\"]\{0,1\}\([^\"]*\)[\"]\{0,1\}/\1/p" The first emerge system pulled in sed-4.1.4 which works fine with the original sed statement. Output from emerge info: !!! Relying on the shell to locate gcc, this may break !!! DISTCC, installing gcc-config and setting your current gcc !!! profile will fix this Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-darwin/macos/10.4, gcc-4.0.0, unavailable, 8.3.0 Power Macintosh) ================================================================= System uname: 8.3.0 Power Macintosh powerpc macos-20041118 distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: [Not Present] sys-devel/automake: [Not Present] sys-devel/binutils: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: [Not Present] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-apple-darwin" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc emboss opengl ppc-macos userland_Darwin kernel_Darwin elibc_Darwin" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
It's crap, but the only solution I found was to remove all quotes from /etc/etc-update.conf, only then it works.
Gentoo for Mac OS X is dead, and this is one of the reasons why that's pretty much a good thing.
