Bug 119806 – app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre2: internal error in equery

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Toralf Förster 2006-01-21 05:18:06 UTC]

yes, it's the wrong syntax, but it shouldn't produce an internal error, isn't it ? Here's what I mean:

n22 ~ # equery --nocolor --quiet list -i /var/www/localhost/htdocs/apache_pb2.gif
!!! Internal portage error, terminating
!!! too many values to unpack

[Comment 1 Erik 2006-04-06 23:47:01 UTC]

Try gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre4. It does not give that error for me.

[Comment 2 Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) 2006-06-21 02:36:11 UTC]

Happens here with gentoolkit 0.2.2 (final)
I think it's about number of slashes in the atom

gehinom ~ # equery list a/b
[ Searching for package 'b' in 'a' among: ]
 * installed packages
gehinom ~ # equery list a/b/
!!! Internal portage error, terminating
!!! too many values to unpack
gehinom ~ # equery list a/b/c
!!! Internal portage error, terminating
!!! too many values to unpack

[Comment 3 Austen Dicken 2007-05-27 17:18:25 UTC]

I've been looking through the equery script and it seems that the error is thrown during package name parsing.

The exact location is line 1282:
(cat, name, ver, rev) = gentoolkit.split_package_name(query)

The problem seems to be that the gentoolkit function split_package_name does not support queries not of the form "(cat(/name(-ver(-rev)?)?)?)?"

Any ideas?

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2007-08-20 18:29:11 UTC]

app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r1 seems to have the same behaviour

[Comment 5 Roderick B. Greening 2007-09-04 19:05:00 UTC]

Same thing with app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4_pre6.

equery --nocolor --quiet list -i /var/www/localhost/htdocs/apache_pb2.gif
!!! Internal portage error, terminating
!!! too many values to unpack

[Comment 6 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2007-10-08 18:46:38 UTC]

This bug is not fixed.

[Comment 7 [e-mail] 2008-02-18 23:11:37 UTC]

Created attachment 143923 [details, diff]
equery_catch_list_filenames.diff

This patch puts some error handling around 

(cat, name, ver, rev) = gentoolkit.split_package_name(query)

that specifically checks for str(ValueError) == 'too many values to unpack' because if gentoolkit.split_package_name(query) returns more than four values it's indicative of a pattern with more than one slash in it, which cannot possibly match any package.

[Comment 8 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2008-02-18 23:48:22 UTC]

$ svn commit -m "Fix equery list to not generate an internal portage error when fed input with too many slashes. (Bug 119806)"
Sending        equery/equery
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 470.

[Comment 9 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2008-02-21 01:51:37 UTC]

Released in gentoolkit-0.2.4_rc2

[Comment 10 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-03-04 21:23:27 UTC]

*** Bug 212314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***