When I tried to upgrade portage from -r16 to -r18, the build failed because the python2.2 (I have python2.3) executable could not be found. I did a grep and traced the error to the shebang line in src/python-missingos/setup.py. This line should be changed from #! /usr/bin/env python2.2 to #! /usr/bin/env python I applied this change, and then did an ebuild install && ebuild qmerge. This was successful. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge portage-2.0.49-r18 2. 3. Actual Results: Emerge fails. Expected Results: Emerge succeeds. Here is the full error message: % sudo emerge portage Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r18 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) portage-2.0.49-r18.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking portage-2.0.49-r18.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.49-r18/work >>> Source unpacked. ./create-localdecls Checking truncate argument type... off_t Checking libc version... libc.so.6 Checking glibc subversion... gcc -march=i386 -O1 -pipe -Wall -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPIC -fPIC -D_REENTRANT libsandbox.c gcc -march=i386 -O1 -pipe -Wall -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPIC -fPIC -D_REENTRANT sandbox_futils.c gcc libsandbox.o sandbox_futils.o -shared -fPIC -ldl -lc -o libsandbox.so -nostdlib -lgcc gcc -march=i386 -O1 -pipe -Wall -c sandbox.c gcc sandbox.o sandbox_futils.o getcwd.c -ldl -lc -o sandbox >>> Install portage-2.0.49-r18 into /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.49-r18/image/ category sys-apps /usr/bin/env: python2.2: No such file or directory !!! ERROR: sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r18 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 94, Exitcode 127 !!! (no error message) % emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.0-test10-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test10-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com http://gentoo.noved.org http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo"MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups directfb encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tetex truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib" % qpkg -I -i dev-lang/python dev-lang/python-2.3.2-r2 * A really great language [ http://www.python.org ]
I searched program which use python2.2 regarding portage. src/python-missingos/setup.py (hydralisk pointeded out) bin/emergehelp.py qa/iuse/iuse2.py (I don't know we use it now)
That code is only supposed to be compiled if you have python2.2 present on your system. It should not be compiled for 2.3. And this was fixed in the ebuild since the bug was submitted.
