Bug 16716

Summary:	perl-5.8.0-r10 hangs on empty ewarn in ebuild
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Joshua Kinard <kumba>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	kumba, mbaptist
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	16727

Description Joshua Kinard gentoo-dev

2003-03-02 23:56:50 UTC

My mips and x86 machines seemed to ignore this empty ewarn, but the portage
(2.0.47-r7) on my sparc system hung on it.  I had to edit the perl-5.8.0-r10
ebuild and remove the empty ewarns in the little note regarding threads before
it would actually start unpacking the source.  As such, this is why I'm sending
this to the sparc team, unless some other arch has run into the same issue..

Comment 1 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-03 05:49:34 UTC

I found this is a general issue. The problem is that the info is also send to syslog using the /usr/bin/logger utility. This utility will read from stdin if there is no input on the command line. An empty string apparently does not qualify. This is a bug in the logging facility of portage. It should be smart enough to trow away empty warnings.

Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-03 05:59:54 UTC

this is a portage problem

Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-03 06:00:08 UTC

*** Bug 16727 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-03-03 08:24:15 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16466 ***