[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] blaqbird:
Why can't things just run smoothly? lol

Tried my hand at paranoid. Everything ran great until build time.

Building ParanoidAndroid v2.55

Looking for device files
Device tree found. Skipping step.

Setting up environment
including device/generic/armv7-a-neon/vendorsetup.sh
including device/generic/armv7-a/vendorsetup.sh
including device/htc/vivow/vendorsetup.sh
including device/ti/panda/vendorsetup.sh
including vendor/cm/vendorsetup.sh
including vendor/htc/vivow/vendorsetup.sh
including vendor/pac/vendorsetup.sh
including vendor/pa/vendorsetup.sh
including sdk/bash_completion/adb.bash

Lunching device
touch: cannot touch `/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libcamera_intermediates/export_includes': Permission denied
touch: cannot touch `/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libaudioalsa_intermediates/export_includes': Permission denied
warning: local_manifest.xml is deprecated; put local manifests in local_manifests instead
warning: no common commits
remote: Counting objects: 418, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (263/263), done.
remote: Total 418 (delta 166), reused 320 (delta 135)
Receiving objects: 100% (418/418), 20.19 MiB | 371 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (166/166), done.
From git://github.com/aeroevan/proprietary_vendor_htc
* [new branch] jellybean -> github/jellybean
Fetching projects: 100% (1/1), done.
warning: local_manifest.xml is deprecated; put local manifests in local_manifests instead

vendor/htc/: discarding 3 commits
build/core/product_config.mk:199: *** vendor/pa/products/pa_vivow.mk: PRODUCT_BRAND must be defined.. Stop.
Device vivow not found. Attempting to retrieve device repository from CyanogenMod Github (http://github.com/CyanogenMod).
Found repository: android_device_htc_vivow
CyanogenMod/android_device_htc_vivow already exists
Syncing repository to retrieve project.
warning: local_manifest.xml is deprecated; put local manifests in local_manifests instead
warning: local_manifest.xml is deprecated; put local manifests in local_manifests instead

Repository synced!
Looking for dependencies
Adding dependencies to manifest
CyanogenMod/htc-kernel-msm7x30 already exists
Syncing dependencies
warning: local_manifest.xml is deprecated; put local manifests in local_manifests instead
warning: local_manifest.xml is deprecated; put local manifests in local_manifests instead

Done
touch: cannot touch `/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libcamera_intermediates/export_includes': Permission denied
touch: cannot touch `/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libaudioalsa_intermediates/export_includes': Permission denied
build/core/product_config.mk:199: *** vendor/pa/products/pa_vivow.mk: PRODUCT_BRAND must be defined.. Stop.

** Don't have a product spec for: 'pa_vivow'
** Do you have the right repo manifest?

Starting compilation
touch: cannot touch `/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libcamera_intermediates/export_includes': Permission denied
touch: cannot touch `/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libaudioalsa_intermediates/export_includes': Permission denied
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PLATFORM_VERSION_CODENAME=REL
PLATFORM_VERSION=4.1.2
TARGET_PRODUCT=full
TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT=eng
TARGET_BUILD_TYPE=release
TARGET_BUILD_APPS=
TARGET_ARCH=arm
TARGET_ARCH_VARIANT=armv7-a
HOST_ARCH=x86
HOST_OS=linux
HOST_OS_EXTRA=Linux-3.2.0-36-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-12.04-precise
HOST_BUILD_TYPE=release
BUILD_ID=JZO54K
OUT_DIR=/home/blaqbird/android/paranoid/out
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/bin/bash: /home/blaqbird/android/paranoid/out/target/product/generic/clean_steps.mk: Permission denied
/bin/bash: /home/blaqbird/android/paranoid/out/target/product/generic/clean_steps.mk: Permission denied
/bin/bash: /home/blaqbird/android/paranoid/out/target/product/generic/previous_build_config.mk: Permission denied
/bin/bash: /home/blaqbird/android/paranoid/out/target/product/generic/obj/PACKAGING/updater_extensions_intermediates/register.inc.temp: Permission denied
grep: build/target/board/generic/recovery.fstab: No such file or directory
find: `fmradio/java': No such file or directory
find: `fmradio/java': No such file or directory
find: `src': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch `/home/blaqbird/android/paranoid/out/target/common/obj/APPS/current_overlays.txt': Permission denied
/bin/bash: /home/blaqbird/android/paranoid/out/target/common/obj/APPS/current_packages.txt: Permission denied
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "build/tools/diff_package_overlays.py", line 91, in <module>
main(sys.argv)
File "build/tools/diff_package_overlays.py", line 60, in main
current_overlays = load_overlay_config(argv[2])
File "build/tools/diff_package_overlays.py", line 49, in load_overlay_config
f = open(filename)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/blaqbird/android/paranoid/out/target/common/obj/APPS/current_overlays.txt'
mv: cannot stat `/home/blaqbird/android/paranoid/out/target/common/obj/APPS/current_overlays.txt': No such file or directory
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:82: **********************************************************
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:83: * Kernel source found, but no configuration was defined *
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:84: * Please add the TARGET_KERNEL_CONFIG variable to your *
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:85: * BoardConfig.mk file *
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:86: **********************************************************
make: *** No rule to make target `bacon'. Stop.

Total time elapsed: 3 minutes (190.957899426 seconds)
blaqbird@RJ-Satellite-L655D:~/android/paranoid$

I expected trouble from AOKP. Couldn't figure out the camera issue from CM and now PA wants to join the "Troublesome Two" to form a "Terrible Triad."

And yes the new vendor strings you made on the OP were created and moved to local_manifest.xml, syncing worked smoothly.