When app-editors/nvi-1.81.5-r5 is built against sys-libs/db-4.3.29-r2, nvi has problems reading long lines within files. I ran across this when editing /etc/make.conf. nvi warned about not being able to read the long USE="blah blah,etc." line, but my first keystroke was too quick and I didn't see the warning until later when reproducing the issue. I was able to skip past the unreadable line, edit the part I want and then save. Well, nvi truncated everything after the example line: #USE="X gtk gnome -alsa" Effectively wiping out the /etc/make.conf! Luckily I'm a good boy so I had a backup from which to restore /etc/make.conf. Revering to sys-libs/db-4.2.52-p4-r2, removing sys-libs/db-4.3* and rebuilding nvi restores normal functionality. I have reproduced this problem on (5) x86 machines. emerge --info from one of them: Portage 2.1.2.2 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-3.4.6-hardenednossp, glibc-2.3.6-r5, 2.6.18-hardened-r6-2007032701 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-hardened-r6-2007032701 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:50:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.15-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--progress --exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="a52 aalib acc acl adns apache2 apm audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo calendar caps cdb cdr cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dbm dbus dbx dedicated dio dvd dvdr dvdread encode ethereal exif expat fastcgi ffmpeg flac flatfile foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gd gdbm geoip ggi gif ginac gmp gnutls gpm gps guile hal hardened howl iconv ieee1394 imap imlib ipv6 javascript jikes jpeg lapack ldap lesstif libcaca libg++ libgda libwww lm_sensors mad maildir mailwrapper matroska mbox mcal mcve memlimit mhash midi mikmod mime mmap mmx mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi msession mssql mysql mysqli ncurses netboot netcdf nis nls nptl nptlonly offensive ofx ogg openal pam pcntl pcre pdf perl php pic png portaudio posix ppds python radius readline recode samba sasl session sharedext sharedmem shorten simplexml slang slp sndfile snmp soap sockets socks5 speex spell spl sqlite ssl svga sysvipc szip tcl tcpd theora threads tidy tiff tokenizer truetype unicode usb vhosts vorbis wddx wifi win32codecs wmf x86 xface xml xmlrpc xorg xsl yaz zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sys-libs/db-4.3* 2. rebuild app-editors/nvi Actual Results: very bad awful things Expected Results: editing files makes Gordon happy
Thanks for the report, and sorry for the inconvenience. Fixed now in 1.81.5-r6 (stable) and 1.81.5-r7 (~arch).
Thanks for the quick fix. Manifest needs updating though for filesize mismatch with nvi-1.81.5-r6.ebuild.
I'm not sure how that happened, but Tester_ fixed it before I got the chance to check :)
