Seems a recent emerge (a few days ago) upgraded gentoolkit (to 0.2.2) and removed old .py files, but failed to remove old .pyc and .pyo files. Hence: john[0]# equery depends libungif [ Searching for packages depending on libungif... ] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1639, in ? cmd.perform(local_opts) File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1058, in perform deps = pkg.get_runtime_deps() + pkg.get_compiletime_deps() + pkg.get_postmerge_deps() AttributeError: Package instance has no attribute 'get_postmerge_deps' john[0]# The following cured it: rm /usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit/gentoolkit.pyc rm /usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit/gentoolkit.pyo Some background info: mechanize[0]$ emerge -s gentoolkit Searching... [ Results for search key : gentoolkit ] [ Applications found : 2 ] * app-portage/gentoolkit Latest version available: 0.2.2 Latest version installed: 0.2.2 Size of files: 84 kB Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/tools/index.xml Description: Collection of administration scripts for Gentoo License: GPL-2 * app-portage/gentoolkit-dev Latest version available: 0.2.5 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 44 kB Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/~karltk/projects/gentoolkit/ Description: Collection of developer scripts for Gentoo License: GPL-2 python[0]# equery --version equery(0.1.4) - Gentoo Package Query Tool Author(s): Karl Trygve Kalleberg python[0]# emerge --info Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.1.3-r1, 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4-r1, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.14.90.0.8-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r4, 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.21-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/fax /usr/share/config /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" LC_ALL="en_GB.utf-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli crypt cups dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
<snip> pkg_preinst() { # FIXME: Remove from future ebuilds after gentoolkit-0.2.2 is stable rm -f ${ROOT}/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit.py[co] ${ROOT}/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit/*.py[co] } </snip>
