Bug 179749

Summary:	portage requires /etc/make.globals (untested)
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Allen Brooker (AllenJB) <gentoo-bugs>
Component:	Other documents	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	rane
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2007-05-25 13:12:57 UTC

I haven't tested this as I haven't got a setup handy right now, but a user on IRC just had this problem.

Basically the user had run "emerge --unmerge portage" and now had to restore portage manually. After following the guide and trying to "emerge portage", the user was told they needed /etc/make.globals.

My suggestion would be to add an instruction to copy the file to the guide.

It's occurred to me that the guide may not cover this scope of problem (since I assume that portage is totally gone from the users system), in which case I'd suggest adding clarification of the scope of problems the guide is designed to fix.

Comment 1 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-25 13:47:16 UTC

Docs team is not responsible for docs that are under proj/. Reassigning to portage because genone is on devaway.

Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-30 23:46:19 UTC

well, make.globals isn't strictly required, but I'll add a note in the docs as without it portage might behave in strange ways.