I don't know if it's related to the recent fixes to the sync tree wrt always triggering package moves, so I opened a new bug for this: Every emerge action triggers a 1Q-2016 package move which fails with an this backtrace: Performing Global Updates (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' #='/var/db update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' %='binary move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2016................................. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/emerge", line 50, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/main.py", line 1185, in emerge_main return run_action(emerge_config) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py", line 3109, in run_action return action_sync(emerge_config) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py", line 1981, in action_sync retvals = syncer.auto_sync(options={'return-messages': False}) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/emaint/modules/sync/sync.py", line 98, in auto_sync emaint_opts=options) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/emaint/modules/sync/sync.py", line 251, in _sync self._do_pkg_moves() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/emaint/modules/sync/sync.py", line 265, in _do_pkg_moves quiet=("--quiet" in self.emerge_config.opts)): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/_global_updates.py", line 41, in _global_updates quiet=quiet, if_mtime_changed=if_mtime_changed) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/_global_updates.py", line 177, in _do_global_updates moves = bindb.move_slot_ent(update_cmd, repo_match=repo_match) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/__init__.py", line 385, in move_slot_ent if repo_match is not None and not repo_match(mycpv.repo): AttributeError: '_pkg_str' object has no attribute 'repo' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run emerge with --package-moves=y or run fixpackages. Doesn't happen with --package-moves=n. Local overlays disabled.
Created attachment 428244 [details] emerge --info
This is puzzling, because the 'repo' attribute should be there. I wonder which of these slotmoves is triggering it: slotmove net-irc/kvirc 4 0 slotmove <sci-libs/libint-2 0 1 slotmove >=sci-libs/libint-2 0 2 slotmove sys-devel/binutils 0 2.25.1 Please attach /usr/portage/packages/Packages in case it contains any clues.
Created attachment 428252 [details] /usr/portage/packages/Packages
It must be something about your sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1-r3 binary package that triggers it. Please test to see if this command shows a repository: portageq metadata / binary sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1-r3 repository
portageq came up emtpy, and deleting the binpckg in question solved my problem. Thank you very much for your help! There were a lot of binpackages back from 2006 still around on this machine, I've been using the same installation for ten years now :). I'll leave the bug open if you want to add a check in portage for someone else having this problem - if not you can of course just mark it fixed.
I might recommend you run eclean-pkg (from gentoolkit package) to clean out the old binpkgs.
I'm going to try to reproduce this with a binary package that I have doctored to have missing 'repository' metadata.
*** Bug 577640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
