Turns out it's a zope problem.

You can download the correct zope source from zope and redigest the ebuild.

Else just fix the bug:

vi /usr/lib/zope-2.9.7/lib/python/App/ApplicationManager.py

Go to line:

def manage_restart(self, URL1):


and change to:

def manage_restart(self, URL1 ...

I love Gentoo fora. They're more helpful than anywhere else I've ever tried to get support, pay distros included.

Hm. Still not fixed. Shall I forward a patch?

Disabling the JailRoot seems to be sufficient to make it work properlyish. This strongly suggests that some library or something isn't in the jail root that the cvs binary needs to be there to make it know all of its commands... now that I think of it, sh is probably a good bet, since it's the ...