There is an error printed by etc-update but it appears to work (it merged some files). root# etc-update Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named portage Scanning Configuration files... Exiting: Nothing left to do; exiting. :) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge portage 2. etc-update Actual Results: prints error Expected Results: works without complaining Portage 2.0.53 (default-darwin/macos/10.3, gcc-3.3, libsystem-7.1-r0, 7.9.0 Power Macintosh) ================================================================= System uname: 7.9.0 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: 7.1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos ~ppc-macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-apple-darwin7" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin7" 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 collision-protect distlocks sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc emboss expat opengl png ppc-macos truetype userland_Darwin kernel_Darwin elibc_Darwin" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
you should mention that you emerged 2.0.53. This version is unstable because it's a known problem.
