problems with portage[solved]

[Adel Ahmed]

I'm trying to install gentoo without the stage 3 tarball(using chroot and host system portage)
I have installed several tools to prepare my chroot howeever when I try emerging(or pretend fetches) I get the following error:
ssd ~ # emerge -pv busybox
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/emerge", line 50, in <module>
retval = emerge_main()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/main.py", line 1070, in emerge_main
return run_action(emerge_config)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py", line 4082, in run_action
emerge_config.args, spinner)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py", line 103, in action_build
chk_updated_cfg_files(settings['EROOT'], ['/etc/portage'])
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/chk_updated_cfg_files.py", line 17, in chk_updated_cfg_files
portage.util.find_updated_config_files(target_root, config_protect))
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/util/__init__.py", line 1741, in find_updated_config_files
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1335, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

I can search just fine, here's my world file:
app-portage/gentoolkit
app-shells/bash
sys-apps/man
sys-apps/portage
sys-libs/glibc

I only have these packages and their prerequisites installed, so I think a portage dependancy might be missing(I used gentoolkit and it says portage's dependencies are installed)

ocalhost ~ # ROOT=/media/ssd/ emerge -pv gentoolkit bash man portage glibc

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/man-1.6g to /media/ssd/ USE="-lzma -nls (-selinux)" 0 KiB
[ebuild R ] app-shells/bash-4.2_p53 to /media/ssd/ USE="(readline) -afs -bashlogger -examples -mem-scramble -net -nls -plugins -vanilla" 0 KiB
[ebuild R ] sys-libs/glibc-2.19-r1:2.2 to /media/ssd/ USE="(multilib) -debug -gd (-hardened) -nscd -profile (-selinux) -suid -systemtap -vanilla" 0 KiB
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.2.14 to /media/ssd/ USE="(ipc) -build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) -xattr" LINGUAS="-ru" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 (-pypy) -python3_4" 0 KiB
[ebuild R ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0.9-r2 to /media/ssd/ PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 (-pypy) -python3_4" 0 KiB

Total: 5 packages (5 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 KiB


thanks

[dol-sen]

Creating a new linux system from scratch is complicated. It is not as simple as what you are doing.

Are you trying to build a gentoo system using a custom profile and packages list?
Or are you just trying to learn how to do it?

dev-util/catalyst is the tool we use to create the stages. The portage tree has a list of the files needed for a system set, plus a special bootstrap script. It also require a careful use of the build use flag.

For stage1 it uses a host stage3 to build a bare minimum stage1 to an alternate root.
Then for stage2 it chroots into the new stage1 rebuilds some things adding a few pkgs.
Stage3, chroots into the stage2 and adds the remaining pkgs.
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[Adel Ahmed]

I'm doing it for educational purposes, the system set seems to have an interesting array of packages, I'll try out those packages to try and find out what's missing

thanks

[Adel Ahmed]

I just went ahead and installed packages from the @system, apparently, the findutils package was all that was needed to get portage working