Bug 1694 – emerge --update world --pretend problem

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Chuck Haines 2002-04-12 09:35:02 UTC]

I can't emerge --update world --pretend.  I get the following error:
root@coruscant portage # emerge --update world --pretend

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating world dependencies /

!!! Portage had a problem processing this file:
!!! /usr/portage/net-im/gaim/gaim-0.56.ebuild
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /usr/portage/net-im/gaim/gaim-0.56.ebuild: line 57: syntax 
error near unexpected token `fi'
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /usr/portage/net-im/gaim/gaim-0.56.ebuild: line 57: `    
fi'
!!! aborting.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1227, in ?
    mydepgraph.syscreate(getworldlist())
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 460, in syscreate
    self.create(self.match(myline,mykey="update (likely old /var/db/pkg 
entry)"))
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 379, in create
    mydb=open(mydbkey,"r")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/edb/dep/dep-gaim-
0.56.ebuild'

[Comment 1 Chuck Haines 2002-04-12 09:35:56 UTC]

I also can't emerge --update world.  I get the same error.

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-04-12 10:33:47 UTC]

That error was my goof-up.  Sorry about that. It is fixed now.   Please emerge
rsync and try again.