Bug 113735 – (app-portage/eix-0.5.0_rc1) update-eix fails when /usr/portage != PORTDIR

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2005-11-27 12:21:09 UTC]

update-eix fails when /usr/portage is empty (and PORTDIR happens to be located 
elsewhere):

epia ~ # update-eix
Reading Portage settings ..
Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch ..
[0] /usr/portage/ (cache: flat)
     Reading 100%
[1] /keeps/gentoo/local (cache: none)
     Reading 100%
Applying masks ..
Can't read /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask

Database contains 0 packages in 3 categories.

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2005-11-27 12:23:39 UTC]

Followed up with:

epia ~ # cd /usr/ ; ln -s /keeps/gentoo/portage portage ; update-eix
Reading Portage settings ..
Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch ..
[0] /usr/portage/ (cache: flat)
     Reading 026%

<and so on>

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2005-11-27 12:31:11 UTC]

Ok, that was on a system that lacked the /usr/portage directory entirely. If 
that directory is present but empty, update-eix reports no problem at all: it 
just writes an empty database for it and gives no error message or error value.

[Comment 3 TGL 2005-11-28 20:48:36 UTC]

It seems that the new VarsReader::read() code forgets to update values of
non-incremental vars as it reads them, and thus miss user-defined $PORTDIR. I
will attach a patch which seems to work here.

[Comment 4 TGL 2005-11-28 20:49:18 UTC]

Created attachment 73778 [details, diff]
eix-0.5.0_rc1-fix-varsreader.patch

[Comment 5 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2005-11-28 22:17:17 UTC]

has been fixed already.. http://dev.croup.de/proj/eix/changeset/43 

[Comment 6 TGL 2005-11-29 03:23:00 UTC]

Doh! Oh well, at least it confirms this patch was correct... :)

[Comment 7 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2005-12-01 00:52:14 UTC]

0.5.0 is in cvs