Bug 236743

Summary:	app-admin/eselect-1.0.11--r1 emerge of this failed with: /bin/touch argument list too long
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marcin Blach <blaszka1>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Marcin Blach 2008-09-04 20:23:23 UTC

I tried to install Gentoo-2008.0 but everytime I tried to emerge something I got failure and message /usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild.sh line 1492 /bin/touch argument list too long.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge "something"
2.
3.

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2008-09-05 00:36:39 UTC

I think this is a duplicate of bug #222091. Look there first.

Second, post your emerge --info and report back.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2008-09-07 22:51:06 UTC

Apply the patch that's attached to bug 222091 for your current version of portage.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 222091 ***