Emerge coldplug tries to access internet for hotplug: first line is: (1 of 2) sys-apps/hotplug-20040923 to / >>> downloading http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/hotplug-2004_09_23.tar.gz =>
Emerge coldplug tries to access internet for hotplug: first line is: (1 of 2) sys-apps/hotplug-20040923 to / >>> downloading http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/hotplug-2004_09_23.tar.gz => úsr/portage/distfiles/hotplug-2004.09_23.tar.gz´ emerge hotplug also fails This all happens after using genkernel.
BTW, the documentation (online) knows this and already states that you can install hotplug/coldplug as packages afterwards.
This has been fixed in the online docs. Pylon, kloeri, beejay: be sure to have this in distfiles for 2005.1's release.