Bug 201082

Summary:	sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc5 - CATEGORY not set in pkg_postinst (corrupts moduledb)
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) <caster>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	kernel-misc
Priority:	High	Keywords:	InVCS, REGRESSION
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	200044
Attachments:	fix missing CATEGORY variable for postinst phase

Description Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-12-03 10:55:31 UTC

Works fine in 2.1.3.x.

As a results of this bug, moduledb gets corrupted like this (missing category):
a:1:/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1
a:1:/fuse-2.7.1
a:1:/ati-drivers-8.433

Didn't check where else it's not set or what else is not set :)

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-12-03 19:24:43 UTC

Created attachment 137643 [details, diff]
fix missing CATEGORY variable for postinst phase

If this patch is saved as /tmp/postinst.patch, then it can be applied as follows:

patch /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py < tmp/postinst.patch

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-12-04 01:29:42 UTC

This has been released in 2.1.4_rc7.