# emerge clean media-sound/sox selected: 12.17.4-r1 protected: 12.17.4-r2 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 media-sound/sox-12.17.4-r1... No package files given... Grabbing a set. /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /var/db/pkg/media-sound/sox-12.17.4-r1/sox-12.17.4-r1.ebuild: line 27: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /var/db/pkg/media-sound/sox-12.17.4-r1/sox-12.17.4-r1.ebuild: line 47: syntax error: unexpected end of file !!! ERROR: media-sound/sox-12.17.4-r1 failed. !!! Function , Line 1294, Exitcode 1 !!! error sourcing ebuild !!! FAILED prerm: 1 root@crusaderbox crusader # etcat -v sox [ Results for search key : sox ] [ Candidate applications found : 2 ] Only printing found installed programs. * media-sound/sox : [ ] 12.17.3-r3 (0) [ I] 12.17.4-r2 (0) root@crusaderbox crusader # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r9) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X X509 aalib alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr chroot crypt cscope cups curl dga directfb doc dv dvb dvd dvdr encode esd extensions faad fbcon flac flash foomaticdb gd gdbm ggi gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile ieee1394 imap imlib innodb ipv6 java jikes joystick jpeg kde kerberos krb4 lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww linguas_it live mad mcal md5sum memlimit mikmod mmx mng motif moznoirc mozp3p mozsvg mpeg mpi mysql ncurses nls nptl odbc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam parse-clocks pdflib perl pic png ppds prelude python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl skey slang slp sndfile snmp socks5 speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype usb v4l v4l2 vim-with-x wmf wxwindows x86 xchattext xml xml2 xmms xv xvid yaz zlib"
exactly the same here: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.13 i486-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m3dnow -msse -fcse-follow-jumps" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m3dnow -msse -fcse-follow-jumps" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acl alsa apm arts avi berkdb bidi cdr cjk crypt cups dga directfb doc dvd encode esd fbcon flac foomaticdb gcj gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg kde kerberos ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx monkey motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime radeon readline ruby samba sdl slang speex spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
an easy work around: open sox-12.17.4-r1.ebuild and go to line 27, remove the little '^A' character at the end of the line and replace it with a quote '"'.
portage devs, can y'all comment on why ebuilds get clobbered like this in /var/db? this seems to be a consistent issue with sox
my fault *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46096 ***
