The `emerge --oneshot sed' step failed when bootstrapping prefixed portage. Possibly this is because etc/make.conf sets ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to "~x86-linux x86-linux" which are not present in the "sed" ebuilds (4.1.4-r1 and 4.1.5 were found in the usr/portage tree).
thanks. I realised this yesterday in my sleep. I will fix it later today and make a new snapshot.
the profile now sets ~x86-linux, and the bootstrap script adds ~x86 as long as those keywords are still in the tree. Should be fixed in the new snapshot.
Confirming that bootstrapping works again by today (on SUSE 10 SP 1; `emerge --info' attached below). Portage 2.2.00.9154-prefix (default-prefix/linux/x86, gcc-3.3.6, unavailable, 2.6.16.53-0.16-smp i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16.53-0.16-smp i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz Timestamp of tree: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:55:29 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.3-r00.1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r4 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r01.1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18.50.0.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86 ~x86-linux" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/local/tmp/nightly/2008-01-08/usr/portage/distfiles" EPREFIX="/local/tmp/nightly/2008-01-08" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.no/ http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/ http://mirror.muntinternet.net/pub/gentoo / http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" LANG="en_US" PKGDIR="/local/tmp/nightly/2008-01-08/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-afte r --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/local/scratch" PORTDIR="/local/tmp/nightly/2008-01-08/usr/portage" SYNC="svn+http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/alt/trunk/prefix-overlay" USE="X cracklib iconv midi mudflap ncurses nls openmp prefix readline ssl unicode x86 zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw as ym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate rou te share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file a uthz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir di sk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiati on rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KE RNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE _COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
That's grand. Thanks!