When I try to get a listing of what needs updating on my system - python crashes due to what seems to be a simply mistake in en emerge or something Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge-websync (i'm inside a proxy :-() 2. emerge -up --deep world 3. Actual Results: [root@david /usr/portage] #emerge -up --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/patch-2.5.9 [2.5.4-r5] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/libtool-1.4.3-r1 [1.4.1-r10] !!! aux_get(): ebuild for '<dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6' does not exist at: !!! /usr/portage/<dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6.ebuild Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1978, in ? mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 943, in display if ("fetch" in string.split(portage.portdb.aux_get(x[2],["RESTRICT"])[0])): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3435, in aux_get raise KeyError KeyError [root@david /usr/portage] # Note that the above file DOES exist on my filesystem in the right place. The problem seems to be with the preceeding '<' character that is stuffing things up. I cant seem to work out where its coming from!! Expected Results: I should have got a list of what needs to be merged [root@david /usr/portage] #emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss avi crypt cups foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts bonobo svga java guile X gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk kde motif opengl -sdl qt gtk2 acpi -apm cdr dvd -3dnow alsa tetex pcmcia icc mozilla mysql plotutils perl samba sse usb ethereal encode apache2" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" [root@david /usr/portage] #
portage bug downgrad to -r5 or upgrade to -r7
