problems creating an ARM prefix[solved]

[Adel Ahmed]

I am using the gentoo prefixin the following document:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android/tarball

to build a new prefix(I'm building the new prefix because the old one has an outdated version of portage that I cannot get around)
I'm following the following document:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Pr ... _Bootstrap

I have set the eprefix directory correctly and have tried running the following command:

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 ${EPREFIX}/bootstrap-prefix.sh ${EPREFIX} stage1

while installing portage it fails with the following output:

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* setting up some guessed defaults
grep: /etc/passwd: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/group: No such file or directory
* Your profile is set to /data/gentoo/downloads/bootstrap/var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/default/linux/arm/17.0/prefix/kernel-3.2+.
/data/gentoo/downloads/bootstrap/bootstrap-prefix.sh: line 497: /data/gentoo/downloads/bootstrap/etc/portage/make.profile/make.defaults: No such file or directory
/data/gentoo/downloads/bootstrap/bootstrap-prefix.sh: line 503: /data/gentoo/downloads/bootstrap/etc/portage/make.profile/package.mask: No such file or directory
/data/gentoo/downloads/bootstrap/bootstrap-prefix.sh: line 522: /data/gentoo/downloads/bootstrap/etc/portage/make.profile/package.use: No such file or directory
/data/gentoo/downloads/bootstrap/bootstrap-prefix.sh: line 535: /data/gentoo/downloads/bootstrap/etc/portage/make.profile/package.unmask: No such file or directory
/data/gentoo/downloads/bootstrap/bootstrap-prefix.sh: line 548: /data/gentoo/downloads/bootstrap/etc/portage/make.profile/package.use: No such file or directory

this is an android system, so there is no /etc/passwd or /etc/group but it seems the script continued, it is failing however while checking those files under make.profile

any idea what I'm doing wrong here?
also is there a way to continue the bootstrapping without starting over?

[Adel Ahmed]

seems this broken symlink is the cause of the issue:

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 make.profile -> /data/hdd/bootstrap/var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/default/linux/arm/17.0/prefix/kernel-3.2+
localhost /data/hdd/bootstrap/var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/default/linux/arm/17.0 # ls
armv4  armv4t  armv5te  armv6j  armv7a  desktop  developer  eapi  musl  parent

[Adel Ahmed]

I have created the symlink and was able to create stage 1 successfully.