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Bug 1469

Summary: emerge system fails in installation process
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Mike W <mike>
Component: UnclassifiedAssignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Mike W 2002-04-02 07:43:06 UTC
After running bootstrap.sh and everything installs fine, 'emerge --pretend 
system' barfs with the following python error: 
 
Calculating system dependencies 
Traceback (most recent call last): 
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1023, in ? 
    mydepgraph.syscreate(getsyslist()) 
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 418, in syscreate 
    self.create(self.match(myline,mykey="syscreate1")) 
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 432, in match 
    myeb=portage.db[portage.root]["porttree"].dep_bestmatch(mydep2) 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1807, in 
dep_bestmatch 
    if not self.hasnode(mykey): 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1571, in hasnode 
    myreskey=self.resolve_key(mykey) 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1522, in 
resolve_key 
    if len(self.tree[mykey])==0: 
KeyError: sys-apps/portage
Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-04-02 08:50:35 UTC
portage has been upgraded.  Please try the following:

emerge --clean rsync
emerge portage
./bootstrap.sh

and let me know if the error recurs.
Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-04-03 23:32:53 UTC
This has been fixed.