I recently received a security advisory through gentoo-announce pertaining to netscape flash. I followed the directions "emerge rsync; emerge netscape-flash; emerge clean" ...everything was fine until the "emerge clean". after running that command, not only did portage fail to work, it also unmerged a package that included "tar", making it impossible to do a portage rescue. i then dug out my install cd and did a manual rescue. it took me a couple of days to get everything squared away for that incident, because it also broke gcc. Now, I just recently tried "emerge clean" again, and once again it broke portage. However, tar remained on the system this time so i could use the portage rescue option. But after i got portage up and running somewhat, i did an "emerge system -up" and got these results: These are the packages that I would merge, in order. Calculating system dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.7.9-r1 to / [ebuild U ] sys-apps/hdparm-5.2-r2 to / [ebuild U ] sys-apps/iptables-1.2.7 to / i thought "emerge clean" would only remove old programs that aren't needed and it appears that it has. after doing the portage rescue, i remerged portage and got this error at the end of the process 9 times /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: einfo not found: command not found when trying an "emerge system -u" i get this error on the baselayout /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /etc/init.d/functions.sh: No such file or directory
What version of Portage are you using?
lack of user input and quite an odd bug (i.e. i dont think its reproducable) closing ...
