The error happens only with binary packages. /var/tmp is a symlink to /home/tmp. I've tried to set PORTAGE_BUILDDIR to /home/tmp, but it doesn't help. >>> Emerging binary (1 of 3) net-misc/rsync-3.0.7 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1683, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 441, in action_build retval = mergetask.merge() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1085, in merge rval = self._merge() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1403, in _merge self._main_loop() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1543, in _main_loop while self._schedule(): File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/PollScheduler.py", line 52, in _schedule return self._schedule_tasks() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1579, in _schedule_tasks if q.schedule(): File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/SequentialTaskQueue.py", line 55, in schedule task.start() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 23, in start self._start() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/MergeListItem.py", line 103, in _start self._start_task(binpkg, self._default_final_exit) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/CompositeTask.py", line 118, in _start_task task.start() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 23, in start self._start() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Binpkg.py", line 52, in _start (dir_path, self.settings['PORTAGE_BUILDDIR'])) AssertionError: '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/rsync-3.0.7' != '/home/tmp/portage/net-misc/rsync-3.0.7' Reproducible: Always Portage 2.2_rc85 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.12.1-r1, 2.6.32-openvz-dobrovolskiy.1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-openvz-dobrovolskiy.1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_D_CPU_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:45:02 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.35 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -msse3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -msse3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --buildpkg --keep-going" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en cs" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/zugaina /var/lib/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip acl amd64 authdaemond bash-completion bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri fortran gdbm gnutls iconv ldap mmx modules mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python readline reflection sasl session spell sse sse2 ssl sysfs syslog tcpd threads truetype udev unicode usb xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias cgi cgid" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en cs" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This is fixed in git: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=0b93f0be11b3bf25a556e48b797f6d600d353e1b
This is fixed in 2.1.9.10 and 2.2_rc86.