Recently I followed the instructions posted to the mailing lists about the upcoming sunset of old Portage support. I upgraded a gentoo 1.0rc6 machine to the 1.0 spec. I was able to switch to the new mirror, perform an rsync, and emerge the new Portage ebuild (Portage 1.9.5). Following the merge of the new portage build things started getting strange. Performing an emerge rsync command now generates an error message # emerge rsync !!! not recognized; exiting. and any attempt to emerge another ebuild results in a no url specified error (same with prozilla and wget). # emerge linux-headers-2.4.18.ebuild Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge sys- kernel/linux-headers-2.4.18 to / Matched EXTRAVERSION more than once! >>> Downloading http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2 Error: You haven't specified a URL Please type proz --help for help >>> Downloading http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2 Error: You haven't specified a URL Please type proz --help for help !!! Couldn't download linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2. Aborting. !!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/sys-kernel/linux-headers/linux-headers- 2.4.18.ebuild . Needless to say, this has stopped me pretty much dead in the water with regard to package management.
you _need_ to update your /etc/make.conf and /etc/make.globals file.
