27360 – Less Confusing Error report than "Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry removed"

Bug 27360 - Less Confusing Error report than "Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry removed"

Summary: Less Confusing Error report than "Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry removed"

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2003-08-26 07:36 UTC by Timo Boettcher
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:20 UTC (History)
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Description Timo Boettcher 2003-08-26 07:36:45 UTC

Portage shows "!!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry removed: /usr/local/portage" 
when the entry in make.conf is just commented back in. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. uncomment the Portdiroverlay-line in /etc/make.conf to show 
"PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage"
2. do *NOT* create /usr/local/portage (or move it to another name)
3. emerge something (I did "emerge -uUD world -p", but should work with any 
emerge)
4. get confused by the error-message

Actual Results:  
!!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry removed: /usr/local/portage

Expected Results:  
An error message which would give more information would be better, like:
!!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry removed: /usr/local/portage (Directory does 
not exist)

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-19 00:31:38 UTC

fixed in cvs