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Bug 58468 - !!! FAILED prerm: 1 -- what to do?
Summary: !!! FAILED prerm: 1 -- what to do?
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 46096
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High blocker (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Netmon project
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Reported: 2004-07-26 14:12 UTC by Roman Gaufman
Modified: 2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
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Description Roman Gaufman 2004-07-26 14:12:52 UTC
hackeron-server net-firewall # emerge -C shorewall

 net-firewall/shorewall
    selected: 1.4.10b 1.4.10f
   protected: none
     omitted: none

>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
>>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.

>>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting...
>>> (Control-C to abort)...
>>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 
>>> Unmerging net-firewall/shorewall-1.4.10b...
No package files given... Grabbing a set.
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /var/db/pkg/net-firewall/shorewall-1.4.10b/shorewall-1.4.10b.ebuild: line 39: une
xpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /var/db/pkg/net-firewall/shorewall-1.4.10b/shorewall-1.4.10b.ebuild: line 41: syn
tax error: unexpected end of file

!!! ERROR: net-firewall/shorewall-1.4.10b failed.
!!! Function , Line 1294, Exitcode 1
!!! error sourcing ebuild

!!! FAILED prerm: 1

This happened when I updated shorewall to latest version, it wont remove old version, and wont remove both either.

Any ideas?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Roman Gaufman 2004-07-26 14:18:13 UTC
CONTENT OF: /var/db/pkg/net-firewall/shorewall-1.4.10b/shorewall-1.4.10b.ebuild

# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-firewall/shorewall/shorewall-1.4.10b.ebuild,v 1.3 2004/03/03 22:31:27 weeve Exp $

IUSE="doc"

DESCRIPTION="Full state iptables firewall"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.shorewall.net/"
SRC_URI="ftp://slovakia.shorewall.net/mirror/${PN}/${P}/${P}.tgz
        doc? ( ftp://slovakia.shorewall.net/mirror/${PN}/${P}/${PN}-docs-html-${PV}.tgz )"
#RESTRICT="nomirror"

LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="x86 ~ppc sparc ~alpha"

DEPEND="virtual/glibc
        net-firewall/iptables
        sys-apps/iproute2^A

S=${WORKDIR}/${P}

src_install() {
        keepdir /var/lib/shorewall
        PREFIX=${D} ./install.sh /etc/init.d || die

        exeinto /etc/init.d
        newexe ${FILESDIR}/shorewall shorewall
        dodoc COPYING INSTALL changelog.txt releasenotes.txt
        if [ "`use doc`" ]; then
                cd ${WORKDIR}/${PN}-docs-html-${PV}
                dohtml -r *
        fi
}

pkg_postinst() {
        einfo "Read the documentation from http://www.shorewall.net"
        einfo "available at /usr/share/doc/${PF}/html/index.htm"
        einfo "and edit the files in /etc/shorewall before starting the firewall"
}
Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-26 19:50:36 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48545 ***
Comment 3 Roman Gaufman 2004-07-27 15:51:23 UTC
Bug 48545 is marked as fixed, so I guess this is a different issue as its certainly not fixed for me, and many others from searching the forum it seems, in different packages.
Comment 4 Jon Hood (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-04 14:35:10 UTC
This is a known problem with a few packages in portage

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46096 ***