Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:30:02 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.6-r1, 2.0.28-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi adns amd apache2 apm ares bash-completion berkdb binary-drivers bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdrom cdsound clamav clamd cli crypt csv cups curl dlloader doc dovecot-sasl dri dvdread elibc_glibc extramodules fat flac fontconfig foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm glade glitz glut gnutls gpm graphviz gs i8x0 ibam id3 idea ident idled ieee1394 imap innodb inode input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse insecure-savers iodbc ipod iproute2 ipv6 isdnlog itcl ithreads jack jack-tmpfs java java5 jce kernel_linux lame libg++ libwww logrotate logwatch lua lzo lzw maildir mbox mixer mmap mod_python modperl modplug motif mp4 mp4live mplayer multiuser music musicbrainz mysql mysqli ncurses net netpbm netserver nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nspr ntp ocaml odbc offensive openssl opensslcrypt pam pango pcap pcapnav pcmcia pcre pdf perl pg-hier pg-intdatetime php posix postfix postgres ppds pppd procmail ps psyco python pyx pyzor radiotap rar razor rc5 rdesktop readline real recode reflection reiserfs rewrite rfkill rpm rss ruby samba sasl screen sdl-sound sendfile session sguil sitemisc smarty sndfile snmp socks5 sox speedo speex spf spl sqlite3 srvdir sse sse-filters sse2 ssl subversion svg svn-mirror swat swig symlink sysfs syslog sysvipc taglib tagwriting tcl tcltk tcpd tcpmd5 themes theora thesaurus threads tidy tiff timestats timidity tk tools totem truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode unzip urandom usb userland_GNU vcd vda video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 video_cards_i810 video_cards_imstt video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nsc video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo vim vim-pager virus-scan vnc vroot wifi wireshark wma wmp wv wxwindows xine xinerama xinetd xml xmms xorg xscreensaver xslt xterm yiff zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS When I use emerge-delta-webrsync, I have to manually set my proxy in some way. I think it would make sense to have it use the setting from make.conf - it's already pulling a lot of information from there.
This is fixed in the following commit: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=f6b15499b54b9b7766cf3cd4b0a053cff76c9749
This is fixed in version 3.6.