Bug 9398 – emerge (-p) kde gives error

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mark 2002-10-20 13:45:39 UTC]

The following error occurs when emerge -p kde, or just emerge kde: 
 
Traceback (most recent call last): 
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1348, in ? 
    retval,favorites=mydepgraph.select_files(myfiles) 
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 665, in select_files 
    if not self.select_dep(portage.root,mykey,arg=x): 
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 719, in select_dep 
    self.create(myk,myparent,"--onlydeps" not in myopts) 
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 632, in create 
    if self.select_dep("/",edepend[0]+" "+edepend[1],myparent=mp): 
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 715, in select_dep 
    self.create(myk,myparent) 
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 632, in create 
    if self.select_dep("/",edepend[0]+" "+edepend[1],myparent=mp): 
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 675, in select_dep 
    mycheck=portage.dep_check(depstring,self.mydbapi[myroot]) 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2077, in dep_check 
    mylist=flatten(dep_listcleanup(dep_zapdeps(mysplit,mysplit2))) 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1834, in 
dep_zapdeps 
    myresult=dep_zapdeps(unreduced[x],reduced[x]) 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1818, in 
dep_zapdeps 
    if unreduced[0]=="||": 
IndexError: list index out of range

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2002-10-20 13:59:24 UTC]

what version of portage ?

[Comment 2 Mark 2002-10-20 14:15:20 UTC]

Portage 2.0.38 
 
I just found out the error is because of something in kdegraphics, which is 
embedded in the kde ebuild. 

[Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2002-10-21 09:00:40 UTC]

Problem was with kdegraphics...
port needs nested use fior depend working on it.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2002-10-21 20:47:44 UTC]

*** Bug 9466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***