When I chroot into the target installation partition (/mnt/gentoo) after untarring the stage1 tarball, the /etc/make.conf file is missing which forbids env-update and emerge sync Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. tar -xvfpj stage1-ppc-1.4_rc6.tbz2 2. chroot /mnt/gentoo 3. env-update or emerge sync Actual Results: 1. env-update fails with error messages pointing to the exceptions in code 2. emerge sync fails with an error message too Expected Results: 1. /etc/make.conf and other necessary files should have been present in stage1 tarball >>> Note: /etc/make.profile/make.defaults isn't available. an 'emerge sync' will probably fix this.
rc7 is out, with this problem fixed