Installed Gentoo last night using 1.0 RC6 r17 *and* build-ix86-1.0-r2.tbz2 Note that the problem (listing below) occurs with or without pretend. However, an emerge [--pretend] system works fine! I'm installing in a VMware setup, so I've copied the setup at this point in the install, so I can replicate it for you if necessary. (none) portage # emerge --usepkg --pretend system These are the packages that I would merge, in order. Calculating system dependencies Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1023, in ? mydepgraph.syscreate(getsyslist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 418, in syscreate self.create(self.match(myline,mykey="syscreate1")) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 450, in match mypk=portage.db[portage.root]["bintree"].dep_bestmatch(mydep) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1807, in dep_bestmatch if not self.hasnode(mykey): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1571, in hasnode myreskey=self.resolve_key(mykey) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1522, in resolve_key if len(self.tree[mykey])==0: KeyError: dev-lang/python
this is fixed. Please report this stuff to "portage", not "portage2-devel"