Bug 38318 – traceback during updating portage cache at the end of sync: 2.0.50_pre16

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Chris PeBenito (RETIRED) 2004-01-15 12:05:16 UTC]

I get a traceback during updating portage cache at the end of sync:

>>> Updating Portage cache... \Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2070, in ?
    mymatches=portage.portdb.xmatch("match-all",x)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4592, in xmatch
    myval=match_from_list(mydep,self.cp_list(mykey))
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3258, in match_from_list
    raise KeyError, "Specific key requires an operator (%s)" % (mydep)
KeyError: 'Specific key requires an operator (packages/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-3.2)'

All my systems have PKGDIR="${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/packages/${CHOST}-3.2", and the overlay is shared over NFS.  When I comment out the OVERLAY and PKGDIR settings, I don't hit the error.  (commenting out the PKGDIR isn't enough)

[Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-01-16 01:18:31 UTC]

I assume it's caused because "packages" is a valid category in $PORTDIR/profiles/categories so portage "thinks" your $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/packages/${CHOST}-3.2 is a package (as in ebuild) directory.
Options are:
- we remove "packages" from the categories file (does anyone know why it's in there ?)
- you move your packages dir out of your PORTDIR_OVERLAY
- you rename it so it doesn't have the same name as a category
- we try to hack around it

[Comment 2 Chris PeBenito (RETIRED) 2004-02-03 20:12:06 UTC]

well I've had this setup for a long time, it just broke like this in 50_pre*

[Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-02-04 10:29:21 UTC]

Yes, 2.0.50 doesn't like cat/pkg-version entries anymore (except for injecting).

[Comment 4 Chetan Sarva 2004-02-06 15:23:04 UTC]

I got the same error after emerging portage-2.0.50.ebuild (stable build?) today. All portage commands threw this error and I had to use the portage-rescue package to fix.

Here's an example. I ran etc-update after emerging 2.0.50.

# etc-update
Traceback (most recent call last): 
  File "/usr/lib/portage/bin/portageq", line 9, in ? 
    import portage,types,string 
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6377, in ? 
    for y in db["/"]["porttree"].dbapi.xmatch("match-all", x): 
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4688, in xmatch 
    myval=match_from_list(mydep,self.cp_list(mykey)) 
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3531, in match_from_list 
    raise KeyError, "Specific key requires an operator (%s) (try adding an
'=')" % (mydep) 
KeyError: "Specific key requires an operator (dev-perl/mod_perl-1.99.10) (try
adding an '=')" 
Traceback (most recent call last): 
  File "/usr/lib/portage/bin/portageq", line 9, in ? 
    import portage,types,string 
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6377, in ? 
    for y in db["/"]["porttree"].dbapi.xmatch("match-all", x): 
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4688, in xmatch 
    myval=match_from_list(mydep,self.cp_list(mykey)) 
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3531, in match_from_list 
    raise KeyError, "Specific key requires an operator (%s) (try adding an
'=')" % (mydep) 
KeyError: "Specific key requires an operator (dev-perl/mod_perl-1.99.10) (try
adding an '=')" 
Scanning Configuration files... 
Exiting: Nothing left to do; exiting. :)

[Comment 5 Brian Harring (RETIRED) 2004-07-16 02:13:48 UTC]

Chris, guessing this is no longer an issue?

[Comment 6 Brian Harring (RETIRED) 2005-02-27 23:40:29 UTC]

Closing... shouldn't be possible now, further, hasn't reared it's head.