Bug 36097 – gentoolkit: etcat incompatible with portage-2.0.50_pre1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Georgi Georgiev 2003-12-18 20:01:27 UTC]

running etcat -v development-sources (for example) on a system that has portage-2.0.50_pre1 gives the following error:

$ etcat -v development-sources
[ Results for search key : development-sources ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]

*  sys-kernel/ppc-development-sources :
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 1105, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 1101, in main
    function(query)
  File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 547, in versions
    if portage.dblink(cat,pkg,"/").exists():
TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 5 arguments (4 given)

Fixing the line in question (line #547 of /usr/bin/etcat) to include an extra empty parameter, so that the call becomes portage.dblink(cat,pkg,"/","").exists(), fixes the issue. I have no idea if it is backwards compatible with ~portage-2.0.49.

[Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-12-20 13:50:14 UTC]

Already known. There is a reason it's masked in package.mask.
Gentoolkit updates are in progress.

[Comment 2 Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) 2003-12-22 17:45:14 UTC]

Still working on this. Not quite dead yet, and all that..

[Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-01-08 18:25:47 UTC]

use gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre2