hello,

i usually develop ebuilds by working on them
in my home directory, and using the "ebuild"
command (rather than "emerge") to try out the
different stages before submitting.

this used to (2 weeks ago) work just fine:

ebuild ant-1.5_beta3.ebuild digest

but now i get:

!!! doebuild: /usr/portage/dev-java/ant/ant-1.5_beta3.ebuild not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/ebuild", line 33, in ?
    a=portage.doebuild(pargs[0],x,getroot(),debug=debug)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1073, in
doebuild
    settings["SLOT"], settings["RESTRICT"], myuris =
db["/"]["porttree"].dbapi.aux_get(mykey,["SLOT","RESTRICT","SRC_URI"])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2548, in
aux_get
    mycent=open(mydbkey,"r")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/var/cache/edb/dep/dev-java/ant-1.5_beta3'

what happened?

ryan