Bugzilla Bug 133514

strace shows it modifies the category:

open("/usr/portage/portage/metadata/cache/1app-accessibility/SphinxTrain-0.9.1-r1",
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "\33[31;01mimlate\33[00;00m: Failed t"..., 115imlate: Failed to read
keywords for app-accessibility/SphinxTrain-0.9.1-r1
) = 115





Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3,
2.6.16-xenxen i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-xenxen i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present]
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
-mno-tls-direct-seg-refs"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
-mno-tls-direct-seg-refs"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt cups
dri eds emboss encode esd expat foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer
gtk gtk2 im
lib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls
nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline
reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
udev unicode vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux
elibc_glibc"                       Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK,
LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Besides PORTDIR, qimlate doesn't make use of any external variables. After
putting a copy of the portage tree in /usr/portage/portage I tried with
PORTDIR="/usr/portage/portage" and couldn't reproduce the problem. I'm also
running the same version of portage as you. 

Could you run `ls /usr/portage/portage/metadata/cache/` and `ls
/usr/portage/portage/metadata/cache/app-accessibility` and post the results on
this bug?

PORTDIR="/usr/portage/portage/" qimlate x86 # works
PORTDIR="/usr/portage/portage" qimlate x86  # doesn't work

Created an attachment (id=86879) [edit]
portage-utils-0.1.17-pathcache.patch

Lines 176-178 of qimlate.c
> pathcache = (char *) xmalloc(strlen(portdir) + strlen("/metadata/cache") + 1);
> strcpy(pathcache,portdir);
> strcat(pathcache+strlen(portdir),"/metadata/cache/");

Here is a problem. It allocates space for "/metadata/cache" but writes more,
"/metadata/cache/". Please try this patch and let me know if it fixes the
problem you are having.

Created an attachment (id=86880) [edit]
test numpkg instead of numcat

Your patch works. Thanks.

Attached is a small patch to test numpkg.

(In reply to comment #4)
> Attached is a small patch to test numpkg.
Great, thanks.

> Your patch works. Thanks.
I committed my patch and your patch to CVS/gentoo-projects/portage-utils. I
bumped portage-utils in portage to 0.1.17-r1.