On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Paul Hartman > <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: >>> After installation and successful 1st reboot, all attempts at wget gets >>> killed: >> >> Perhaps recompile wget with -ggdb and FEATURES=nostrip to keep >> debugging symbols attached, and maybe you can debug to see where it is >> failing. > > Out of curiosity, how would one rebuild wget without a working wget? > (How could one avoid the fetch-sources step, for example?)
In /etc/make.conf you can change the FETCHCOMMAND to have portage use something other than wget. Or more realistically, you can just acquire the file by any means and copy it to /usr/portage/distfiles
