I have a number of hosts that fetch packages from a central build box. I have problems every once in a while when packages are "moved" in the portage tree. I get *DEPEND errors. I recently tracked this down to the fact that RDEPEND in vdb isn't getting updated to reflect the new categories. DEPEND does however. I'm not sure if portage only uses the stuff from vdb when using --getbinpkg or what, but I only see this on the boxes that use it. I have fixpackages in FEATURES on the build host, and I've run it manually. It doesn't seem to help. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Portage doesn't use *DEPEND from /var/db/pkg at all at the moment. I can't see how it's possible that invalid data there could cause any issues with --getbinpkg. The files in /var/db/pkg/*/* as well as the data tagged on to the end of tbz2s are updated by just running a couple of regexs over them. If you've got a case where it's failing, that'd be good to fix. For this bug though, I'd say that the downloaded cache thingy that apparently exists in /var/cache/edb is out of date.
On one of the hosts having the problem, I try clearing the cache to no avail. iomnis02 root # rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/ /var/cache/edb/remote_metadata.pickle iomnis02 root # rm /var/cache/edb/metadata.idx.most_recent iomnis02 root # emerge -pvgkuD world >>> /var/cache/edb/dep doesn't exist, creating it... These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Fetching binary packages info... cache miss: 'x' --- cache hit: 'o' xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- DONE! Calculating world dependencies / emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-perl/MIME-Base64". !!! Problem with binary mail-filter/spamassassin-3.0.2-r1 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed. On the pkg server, I check to make sure the packages are all updated. gulfspam postfix # grep -rna dev-perl/MIME-Base64 /usr/portage/packages/All/ gulfspam postfix # Also, the make.conf files are identical on all the hosts with the exception of the PORTAGE_BINHOST being set Anything else to check?
Really not too sure about how remote binary packages work. It might be that the metadata index on the server is out of date? Not sure where that is stored or how/when it's generated though.
I'm not using the server side index.
Do you run fixpackages on your binhost? The local metadata appears to be syncing up ( lots of x's and no errors downloading the updated metadata ). Can you emerge -K dev-perl/MIME-Base64 and reproduce the DEPEND error on the buildhost?
Add a --debug in there as well.
Probably obsolete by now, and missing information requested in comments#5 and #6.
