in any repos.conf there is a location=/path/to/repo is this path absolute or does it follow ROOT or PORTAGE_CONFIG ?
I tried to add location=${ROOT}/path/to/repo but emerge would only accept this for the master gentoo repo: [gentoo] location = ${ROOT}/usr/portage .. [tmv3-target-overlay] location = ${ROOT}/usr/local/portage/tmv3-target-overlay and emerge gives me: emerge -aNDuv world !!! Section 'tmv3-target-overlay' in repos.conf has location attribute set to nonexistent directory: '${ROOT}/usr/local/portage/tmv3-target-overlay' Jocke