412163 – app-portage/portage-utils - md5-cache not supported

Bug 412163 - app-portage/portage-utils - md5-cache not supported

Summary: app-portage/portage-utils - md5-cache not supported

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Third-Party Tools (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Portage Utils Team

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Reported:	2012-04-16 07:06 UTC by Oleh
Modified:	2012-08-14 18:11 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Oleh 2012-04-16 07:06:55 UTC

portage-utils doesn't work with md5-dict cache enabled

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run any of cache utilities from portage-utils (qcache)
2.portage-utils expects ../metadata/cache to exist and doesn't work with md5-cache only enabled tree. 
3.
Actual Results:  
# q -m
q: chdir to portage cache '/var/cache/portage/metadata/cache' failed: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
md5-cache work correct

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2012-08-07 00:16:05 UTC

The PMS cache format has now been dropped from the tree, so this is absolutely required to continue using the tools. This has broken Willikins, the gentoo bot!

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-08-14 18:11:46 UTC

robin implemented this.  it'll be in 0.11.