step to reproduce: ~ # emaint --help usage: emaint [options] all | world options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -c, --check check for problems -f, --fix attempt to fix problems ~ # emaint --check world Attempting to fix world ~ # emaint --fix world Attempting to fix world Initially I've tought it could be a simple problem, something like 'same output message for --check and --fix'. But looking inside emaint I found: [quote] if action == "-c/--check": status = "Checking %s for problems" func = "check" else: status = "Attempting to fix %s" func = "fix" [/quote] I've tought it could be an OptionParser bug. So I've modified emaint to be sure: [patch] --- /usr/sbin/emaint 2005-10-11 20:09:26.000000000 +0200 +++ emaint 2005-10-14 10:28:23.000000000 +0200 @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ else: tasks = [modules[args[0]]] - +print action if action == "-c/--check": status = "Checking %s for problems" func = "check [/patch] but now: ~ # ./emaint --check world -c/--check Attempting to fix world so action is '-c/--check' but the if doesn't think so. So, it's a serious problem. trying with a print repr(action) I've : <Option at 0x-4812de54: -c/--check> so action is actually an Option trying with a print repr(action.action) I've: 'callback' So it seems something like a circular reference introduced somewhere in the code. Any idea? Here is my actual emerge --info: Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 Portage 2.0.53_rc5 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 Celeron (Coppermine) distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 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: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS=" -march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -mfpmath=sse " CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/jetty/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS=" -march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -mfpmath=sse -O2 -fvisibility-inlines-hidden " DISTDIR="/home/ftp/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildsyspkg collision-protect confcache cvs distlocks elog maketest parallel-fetching sandbox sfperms strict test userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo" LANG="it_IT.utf8" LC_ALL="it_IT.utf8" LDFLAGS=" -Wl,-O3 " LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/home/ftp/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac aalib acl acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib caps cdparanoia chroot clamav crypt cups curl dba dio directfb divx4linux emboss encode erandom esd faac faad fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb gcc-libffi gd gdbm ggi gif gimpprint glibc-omitfp gmp gnokii gnome gnomedb gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile iconv imagemagick imlib imlib2 innodb ipv6 irda ithreads java javacomm javascript jbig jikes jpeg jpeg2k junit justify jython kde kdeenablefinal lcms libclamav libg++ libwww linuxthreads-tls lzo mad mailwrapper mbox md5sum mdb mikmod mime mjpeg mmap mmx mmx2 mmxext mng motif mozcalendar mozdevelop moznoirc mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi mpm-worker mysql ncurses nls no-old-linux no-suexec no_wxgtk1 noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsf nobsh nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nojdepend nojsch nomac norhino noxalan noxerces nptl nptlonly oav objc odbc offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pcsc-lite pdflib perl php plotutils png pnp posix ppds pwdb python qt quicktime readline rtc samba scanner sdl shared sharedmem slang smartcard sms snmp softquota speex spell spl sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd test tetex theora threads tidy tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales utf8 vcd vda vorbis win32codecs wmf wsconvert xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xpm xsl xv xvid yahoo zlib linguas_it userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET
Created attachment 70652 [details, diff] Grab str(option) in exclusive() OptionParser is proving to be more trouble that it's worth. (But it was my fault this time) :/
I can confirm that the submitted patch solve this bug,
Released in 2.0.53_rc6
Verified, works fine for me, closing.
