Re: KeyError: 'ED' ?

On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 16:47 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> I am upgrading an old portage(2.3.76) to 3.0.18 using qmerge(binary pkg) and I get this:
>  qmerge -OK sys-apps/portage
> [R] sys-apps/portage-3.0.18
>  * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options...
>  [ ok ]
>  * Using python3.8 in global scope
> FEATURES variable contains unknown value(s): disabled
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
>     return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
>     exec(code, run_globals)
>   File "/var/tmp/qmerge/sys-apps/portage-3.0.18/image/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/portage/_compat_upgrade/default_locations.py", line 93, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/var/tmp/qmerge/sys-apps/portage-3.0.18/image/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/portage/_compat_upgrade/default_locations.py", line 63, in main
>     config_path = os.path.join(os.environ['ED'], GLOBAL_CONFIG_PATH.lstrip(os.sep), 'make.globals')
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/os.py", line 675, in __getitem__
>     raise KeyError(key) from None
> KeyError: 'ED'
> 
> so portage fails to install properly, I am guessin this is becuse I have an old portage to begin with?
> Can it be fixed?

The error goes away when I do: ED=/ qmerge -OK sys-apps/portage
Does that mean that it is qmerge(aka portage-utils) that needs to set ED during merge? which PHASES ?

 Jocke