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Bug 253002 - sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.4: error when updating cache
Summary: sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.4: error when updating cache
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252748
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Keywords: InVCS
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Blocks: 210077 254662
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Reported: 2008-12-29 15:44 UTC by François Valenduc
Modified: 2009-01-12 20:12 UTC (History)
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Description François Valenduc 2008-12-29 15:44:57 UTC
Since I have upgraded to portage 2.1.6.4, the following error occurs when the cache is updated:

>>> Updating Portage cache:   39%/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/cache/util.py:65: UnicodeWarning: Unicode unequal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
  if trg.get(k, "") != entry.get(k, ""):
100%

Can somebody explain what's happening ?
Thanks for your help.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run emerge --sync with metadata-transfer enabled (or run emerge --metadata)
2.
3.




Output of emerge --info:

Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.28 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.28-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7500_@_2.20GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:35:01 +0000
distcc 3.0 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [enabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.7-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.1/env /usr/kde/4.1/share/config /usr/kde/4.1/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="buildsyspkg ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ "
LANG="fr_BE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="fr_BE.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 arts avahi berkdb branding bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kdeprefix kerberos libnotify mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection scanner sdl session spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis xcb xml xorg xosd xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2008-12-29 18:00:55 UTC
It seems to be the same issue as bug #252748. I've removed the unicode characters from dev-ruby/nokogiri DESCRIPTION metadata, and moved them to metadata.xml.

I'll add a repoman check to prevent this from happening in the future.
Comment 2 François Valenduc 2008-12-29 18:33:06 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 252748 ***
Comment 3 François Valenduc 2008-12-29 18:33:52 UTC
This is indeed the same problem as in bug #252748  but it still occurs after having synced my portage tree.
Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2008-12-29 18:46:39 UTC
I've removed the unicode in CVS but it will still take some time before it reaches all of the rsync mirrors.
Comment 5 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2008-12-29 20:03:40 UTC
I've added a new "variable.invalidchar" check in svn r12365.
Comment 6 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2009-01-12 20:12:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> I've added a new "variable.invalidchar" check in svn r12365.

This is in 2.1.6.5 and 2.2_rc21.