bind-9.2.2-r2.ebuild This line from the ebuild: einfo "\`ebuild /var/db/pkg/${CATEGORY}/${PF}/${PF}.ebuild config\`" prints: * `ebuild /var/db/pkg/bind-9.2.2-r2/bind-9.2.2-r2/bind-9.2.2-r2.ebuild config` The ${CATEGORY} should be 'net-dns/' not 'bind-9.2.2-r2'. mother bind # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.23_pre8-gss) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.23_pre8-gss i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 distcc 2.11.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="arts avi berkdb crypt cups foomaticdb gif icc jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir mpeg ncurses nocardbus nptl oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang snmp spell sse sse2 ssl svga truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6414 ***
Bug 6414 seems to be a couple of years old. Why not put in a temp fix: $CATEGORY = 'net-dns' or just hardcode more of the path in the ebuild?