Bug 35521

Summary:	incomplete merges are not detected correctly
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	georg.lippold
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	patch to detect incomplete merges correctly

Description georg.lippold 2003-12-10 05:39:17 UTC

I had a nasty bug whenever I executed 'emerge clean': portage always told me, that  I had an invalid /var/db/pkg entry for devfsd:

>>> Auto-cleaning packages ...
!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd
>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.

first, I tried to unmerge sys-fs/devfsd and then emerged it anew, but that didn't fix the problem. The problem lay in the portage source: The routine, that should detect incomplete merges had a problem: it looked for the string '.*/-MERGING-(.*)', but incomplete merges can only be detected with '.*/-MERGING-.*', since the brackets went away sometime ago. I attached a patch that fixes it.

Comment 1 georg.lippold 2003-12-10 05:40:27 UTC

Created attachment 21968 [details, diff]
patch to detect incomplete merges correctly

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-12-10 12:15:20 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31881 ***