# etcat -v aterm Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 642, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 638, in main function(query) File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 246, in versions matches = gentoolkit.find_packages(query) File "/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit.py", line 187, in find_packages t=portage.portdb.match(search_key) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4601, in match return self.xmatch("match-visible",mydep) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4568, in xmatch mydep=dep_expand(origdep,self) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3041, in dep_expand return prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb)+postfix File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2985, in cpv_expand raise ValueError, matches ValueError: ['dev-libs/aterm', 'x11-terms/aterm'] The same happens for 'etcat -c aterm'. Other packages work fine, possibly because there aren't two packages in two different categories with the same name? # emerge -p aterm These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! The short ebuild name "aterm" is ambiguous. Please specify !!! one of the following fully-qualified ebuild names instead: dev-libs/aterm x11-terms/aterm # emerge info Portage 2.0.50_pre16 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20031222-r0, 2.6.1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.rucus.ru.ac.za/pub/linux/gentoo http://csmsc04.ict.ru.ac.za http://zion.ru.ac.za ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.rucus.ru.ac.za/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl alsa amd apm arts autofs avi berkdb bonobo crypt cups curl directfb doc encode esd faad flash foomaticdb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile i8x0 imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod motif mozcalendar mozilla mozinterfaceinfo moznocompose moznoirc mozxmlterm mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam parse-clocks pdflib perl php pic png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang slp snmp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex transparent-proxy truetype unicode usagi vim-with-x wmf wxwindows x86 xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib"
shows a missing operator error with trailing partial version number etcat -v links-2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 642, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 638, in main function(query) File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 246, in versions matches = gentoolkit.find_packages(query) File "/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit.py", line 187, in find_packages t=portage.portdb.match(search_key) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4601, in match return self.xmatch("match-visible",mydep) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4588, in xmatch myval=match_from_list(mydep,self.xmatch("list-visible",None,mydep,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 (net-www/links-2)' without the trailing numbers is fine .. parser should be able to handle this case without failing etcat -v links [ Results for search key : links ] [ Candidate applications found : 5 ] Only printing found installed programs. * net-www/links-0.96-r2 : [ ] 0.96-r2 (0) * net-www/links-2.1_pre9 : [ ] 2.1_pre9 (2) * net-www/links-2.1_pre11 : [ ] 2.1_pre11 (2) * net-www/links-2.1_pre13 : [ ~ ] 2.1_pre13 (2) * net-www/links-2.1_pre14 : [ ~ ] 2.1_pre14 (2)
pre5 is out now
