During the last few weeks, some empty directories showed up in my Portage-CVS-tree, e.g. /usr/portage/app-doc/ebook-gtk-2.0, there are around 10 others. Somehow these keep getting created when I run "cvs up -d". eupdated is failing if such an empty directory exists with the following error message: # rm /tmp/esearchdb.py.tmp ; eupdatedb * indexing: 10354 ebuilds to goTraceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/eupdatedb", line 155, in ? pkgv = portage.portdb.xmatch("bestmatch-visible", pkg) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5431, in xmatch myval=best(self.xmatch("match-visible",None,mydep=mydep,mykey=mykey)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5442, in xmatch myval=match_from_list(mydep,self.xmatch("list-visible",None,mydep=mydep,mykey=mykey)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3966, in match_from_list raise KeyError, "Specific key requires an operator (%s) (try adding an '=')" % (mydep) KeyError: "Specific key requires an operator (app-doc/ebook-gtk-2.0) (try adding an '=')" I'm not sure if these directories need to be removed or eupdatedb/portage should be adjusted to handle these better.
add a -P to your cvs update to get rid of those dirs.
Thanks, that did the trick! Setting to WORKSFORME, as no change was necessary to fix it.
