Bugzilla Bug 132915

When cdb module is installed and functioning properly in portage-2.1_pre10-r5,
and eix is set to use the cdb cache, it does not find any packages in
/usr/portage.

This is after upgrading to portage-2.1_pre10, and running emerge --metadata. As
I said, portage itself works flawlessly.

example:
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gentoo ~ # update-eix
Reading Portage settings ..
Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch ..
[0] /usr/portage/ (cache: cdb)
     Reading 100%
[1] /usr/local/portage (cache: none)
     Reading 100%
Applying masks ..
Database contains 0 packages in 147 categories.

Contents of /etc/portage/modules:
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portdbapi.auxdbmodule = cache.cdb.database
eclass_cache.dbmodule = cache.cdb.database

Contents of /etc/eixrc:
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PORTDIR_CACHE_METHOD="cdb"


emerge info:
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Portage 2.1_pre10-r5 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.16-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  0.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
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=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -frename-registers -fweb
-ftracer"
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=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -frename-registers -fweb
-ftracer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox
sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo "
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://gentoo3.thebernardgroup.com/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 apache2 berkdb cli crypt eds encode fortran gdbm gif jfs jpeg libg++
libwww ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pcre perl png python readline reflection
session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev xml zlib
elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS


NOTE: I used the following CXXFLAGS as a test, and that failed also (as I
expected it would):
CXXFLAGS="-mtune=i686 -O2 -pipe"

Are we talking about the cdb-module that's available at
http://markus-ullmann.de/gentoo/speedhack-portage-2.1/?

No. Here:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb

There are two versions, one for 2.0.x and one for 2.1.x.

Sorry. I just compared the one at your link. Same module as the link I posted.

The "new" cdb-module is currently not supported (and probably will never be).
I suggest you switch to PORTDIR_CACHE_METHOD="metadata" ..

Sorry, we will not fix this

Please use eix-0.5.5 that just got stable today with
PORTDIR_CACHE_METHOD="metadata"