Many of the examples do not show the required quotes. If a user just uncomments a line, make.conf will not parse. The error that is given does not really help as to what the problem is: !!! Invalid token (not "=") !!! Parse error in /etc/make.conf. !!! Incorrect multiline literals can cause this. Do not use them. Example: # PORTDIR_OVERLAY is a directory where local ebuilds may be stored without # concern that they will be deleted by rsync updates. Default is not # defined. #PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage Uncommenting the above line will produce an error when trying to emerge, unless you change it to PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" There are multiple examples in the default make.conf file (as seen on the Pentium 3 1.4 CD) that are like that.
I've fixed everything in gentoo-src/stager/files, so all the stager make.confs should be quoted our double-quoted. Nick, would be nice to upgrade the Portage conf parser to be more bash-like.
The make.conf created by catalyst (on the 2.6 Live CDs) miss many of the options. Either upgrade the Gentoo Handbook to inform the user what options are needed or putting a note in make.conf telling the user the correct path to an make.conf.example would be helpful.
I can copy that - the make.conf created by catalyst is quite trivial and includes only minimal options.
Guessing this isn't an issue anymore?
No complaints of 'still horked' ~== FIXED marking (besides that, it was a livecd issue, not portage)
