to have a proper output on the console Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib innodb java jpeg kde libg++ libwww linguas_de mad mbox mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
The proper fix seems to be to uncomment the "eend ${retval} ..." line and comment out the exit line which ends the file. /sbin/rc does not seem to be checking the return of depscan.sh so the script itself should be reporting any erorrs it has.
fixed in cvs, thanks