The output of emerge looks as follows: insania root # emerge -u world Calculating world dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-analyzer/tcpdump-3.8.1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) tcpdump-3.8.1.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking tcpdump-3.8.1.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/tcpdump-3.8.1/work tar: Removing leading `tcpdump-3.8.1/./' from member names >>> Source unpacked. !!! ERROR: net-analyzer/tcpdump-3.8.1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 341, Exitcode 1 !!! no configure script found I had THE SAME error with libpcap 0.8.1 but i fix (around) it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge sync 2.emerge -u world 3. Actual Results: It didn't update. (See details) Expected Results: It should update. :D See details. I think that .tar.gzs are broken.
a great day for tar: duplicate of #37132
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37132 ***