Bug 225773 – eix does not parse correctly slots with dashes (Invalid line, You have a operator but we can't find a version-part)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Edward "Hades" 2008-06-10 16:41:32 UTC]

app-portage/eix does not parse correctly slot names with dashes (for example kde-4). This results in such messages as:

-- Invalid line in /etc/portage/package.unmask(16): "<kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.4:kde-4"
    You have a operator but we can't find a version-part.

The reason is that the function, responsible for finding the version number, finds it by roughly the following regexp: /-\d.*$/, that is obviously wrong in case of slot names, that contain dashes.

This affects all eix versions up to and including svn trunk.
Patch follows.

[Comment 1 Edward "Hades" 2008-06-10 16:43:41 UTC]

Created attachment 156259 [details, diff]
Patch to fix eix problem with slot names with dashes

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2008-06-10 16:57:10 UTC]

Sorry, but it's customary to wait until a fixed version is available to everyone. :)

[Comment 3 Edward "Hades" 2008-06-10 16:59:07 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Sorry, but it's customary to wait until a fixed version is available to
> everyone. :)
> 

I'm sorry, I didn't know where to ask about correct patch submission procedure.

[Comment 4 Martin Väth 2008-06-10 19:39:07 UTC]

Submitting a patch is ok; I guess Jeroen meant that the bug should only be
closed when a working version of the package is in the portage tree.

The patch is now included eix' svn trunk; it will be released with
>=eix-0.12.6.

[Comment 5 Martin Väth 2008-06-25 19:37:45 UTC]

Since eix-0.13.0 is now in the tree, I mark the bug as "fixed".
Re-open if it does not work as expected.