First emerge-webrsync call (at installation) when /etc/make.profile doesnt exist emerge-webrsync tries to wget an error message generated in this line GENTOO_MIRRORS="`${PYTHON} -c 'import portage... so, result is waiting. I've added a wget debug. Fetching most recent snapshot wget: >>>/snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: Note:/snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: /etc/make.profile/snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: isn't/snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: available;/snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: an/snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: 'emerge/snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: sync'/snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: will/snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: probably/snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: fix/snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: this./snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20030325.tar.bz2 wget: >>>/snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: Note:/snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: /etc/make.profile/snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: isn't/snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: available;/snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: an/snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: 'emerge/snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: sync'/snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: will/snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: probably/snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: fix/snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: this./snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20030324.tar.bz2 wget: >>>/snapshots/portage-20030323.tar.bz2 wget: Note:/snapshots/portage-20030323.tar.bz2 wget: /etc/make.profile/snapshots/portage-20030323.tar.bz2 wget: isn't/snapshots/portage-20030323.tar.bz2 ... Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: 1. rm /etc/make.profile 2. emerge-webrsync 3. I think emerge-webrsync should say more than only "Fetching recently snapshots...". When no todays snapshot exist it should say "Nothing to be done today" (if /usr/portage exists) and exit.
Should be taken care of in >=portage-2.0.48_pre3