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Bug 307741 - portage-2.1.8 NameError: global name 'basestring' is not defined
Summary: portage-2.1.8 NameError: global name 'basestring' is not defined
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 307723
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High blocker (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2010-03-04 10:17 UTC by lumbrius
Modified: 2010-03-04 11:34 UTC (History)
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Description lumbrius 2010-03-04 10:17:36 UTC 
vesta ~ # emerge -uav system

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 42, in <module>
    retval = emerge_main()
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1410, in emerge_main
    myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 309, in action_build
    mydepgraph.display_problems()
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 4842, in display_problems
    self._display_problems()
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 4954, in _display_problems
    mreasons = get_masking_status(pkg, pkgsettings, root_config)
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 5701, in get_masking_status
    portdb=root_config.trees["porttree"].dbapi)
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/proxy/objectproxy.py", line 32, in __call__
    return result(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/getmaskingstatus.py", line 22, in getmaskingstatus
    if not isinstance(mycpv, basestring):
NameError: global name 'basestring' is not defined


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2010-03-04 10:55:29 UTC 
This is the same as bug 307723.
Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2010-03-04 11:05:14 UTC 
Reopen for duplication.
Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2010-03-04 11:05:32 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 307723 ***
Comment 4 lumbrius 2010-03-04 11:34:19 UTC 
Thanks! I've tried to find existing bug before posting that one, but failed.