8348 – please add a warning when portage parsed files have syntax errors

Bug 8348 - please add a warning when portage parsed files have syntax errors

Summary: please add a warning when portage parsed files have syntax errors

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-09-25 06:48 UTC by whirm
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description whirm 2002-09-25 06:48:20 UTC

I canceled the emerge of kdelibs because I forgot to unset the alsa flage
before, and now everytime that I call portage
It fails:

*******
bash-2.05a$ emerge -s kde
!!! Invalid token (not "=") spell
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2, in ?
    import os,sys,portage,xpak,string,re,commands,time,threadin
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3971
    settings=config()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 675,
    useorder=self["USE_ORDER"]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 738,
    if x.has_key(mykey):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'has_key'
*******
If I do env-update:

***bash-2.05a# env-update 
!!! Invalid token (not "=") spell
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/env-update", line 3, in ?
    import portage
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3971, in ?
    settings=config()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 675, in __init__
    useorder=self["USE_ORDER"]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 738, in __getitem__
    if x.has_key(mykey):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'has_key'
bash-2.05a# 
****

but rc-update works perfectly!

******
bash-2.05a# rc-update del xdm default
 * xdm removed from runlevel default...
 * Caching service dependencies...                                             
  [ ok ] * rc-update complete.
bash-2.05a#
******

oh shit now I can't emerge nothing!!! 
will try to untar the stage3-i686_athlon.xp-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2 over my actual
system....

Comment 1 whirm 2002-09-25 07:00:33 UTC

ok, now I know that is some file in /etc/ that fucks off the thing, now I sould
got go eat something, late I will continue investigating... ^_^

oh and... I use:

portage 2.0.37
python 2.2.1-r2

Comment 2 whirm 2002-09-25 08:03:25 UTC

wow, I'm stupid! I deleted the starting " (cuote) on the USE="bla bla bla" line
in make.conf!!

I will change that to enchancements.

Please add a warning when something like that happens! ^_^

thanks...

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-09-25 21:10:49 UTC

this has cropped up before ...
Bug 1535 2726 4860

basically if you quit with something like:
died parsing <file> on line <#> ... please fix it and try again

i would prefer if emerge died rather than a notice and have it keep moving ...

Comment 4 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-10-20 03:13:25 UTC

Notices just so happen to be in as of 2.0.41