Here's the whole log: http://nbit.it/gentoo/net-dns/bind/issue.txt Here's the ebuild I was using: http://nbit.it/gentoo/net-dns/bind/bind-9.2.2.ebuild Apparently, pkg_preinst() isn't carried out. # emerge -V Portage 2.0.48 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -B bind-9.2.2.ebuild 2. emerge -K bind 3.
please post 'emerge info'
Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21-rc6-ac1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp.gentoo.no" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 crypt gif jpeg maildir mmx ncurses pam pdflib readline sse ssl zlib apache2" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache userpriv usersandbox"
I think this bug was already fixed.
The URLs are 404 by now, might already be fixed.
Closing due to old age