sys-apps/portage eutils.class enewuser doesn't create user when $ROOT is set. $ROOT has no effect on 'egetent passwd distcc' getent still reads /etc/passwd file instead of $ROOT/etc/passwd idea: as for BSD 'case', convert it to 'grep "$2:.*:" $ROOT/etc/$1' Reproducible: Always # emerge --info Portage 2.2.0_alpha4 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.5.1, glibc-2.12.1-r3, 2.6.36-radeon x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.36-radeon-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_9500_Quad-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:45:02 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1::local sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6-r1, 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.82 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.35 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) Repositories: gentoo local extras ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="-bakoma @ACCEPTED-LICENSE" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=barcelona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /lib/rcscripts/addons /lib64/udev/devices /sbin/rc /sbin/splash-functions-bl1.sh /sbin/splash-functions.sh /usr/local/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default/index.theme /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=barcelona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=8 --load-average=20.0 --with-bdeps y" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect compress-build-logs distcc distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://192.168.1.13/gentoo-portage rsync://192.168.1.14/gentoo-portage ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles" LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="fr" MAKEOPTS="-j4" 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="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage/extras" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext acl amd64 avahi bindist bzip2 caps cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri expat gdbm gmp gpm iconv idn ipv6 ithreads jpeg2k latex logrotate maildir mmx mmxext modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg openmp pam pcre perl postgres pppd pulseaudio python readline session sse sse2 ssl ssse3 sysfs tcpd threads udev unicode userlocales vorbis xattr xinetd xorg xulrunner zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio virmidi" 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="cgid 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" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" DVB_CARDS="usb-wt220u" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr" LIRC_DEVICES="devinput userspace" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" 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 bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 53269 ***