Bug 228679 – update-eix (eix >= 0.12.4) fails with have an empty portage_overlay directory

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Jack 2008-06-21 05:58:34 UTC]

If you have an empty directory specified in PORTAGE_OVERLAY, the update-eix command fails with the following error:
Reading Portage settings ..
void CacheTable::addCache(const char*, const char*, const char*, const char*, const std::string&, const std::map<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::less<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >, std::allocator<std::pair<const std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > > >*): Unknown cache 'none' for directory '/usr/local/portage'

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a empty directory
2.Set PORTAGE_OVERLAY to directory location in /etc/make.conf
3.Run update-eix



Expected Results:  
Run successfully

[Comment 1 Jack 2008-06-21 05:59:50 UTC]

Sorry, not PORTAGE_OVERLAY, but PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 2 Emil Beinroth 2008-06-21 11:16:31 UTC]

Not a bug.

The cache method "none" does no longer exist. I guess you didn't update /etc/eixrc or you have some old ~/.eixrc.

[Comment 3 Arne Babenhauserheide 2008-06-24 08:32:29 UTC]

Couldn't eixrc be updated via cfg-update? 

I stumbled into this, too. 

[Comment 4 Martin Väth 2008-06-25 19:33:21 UTC]

When you have followed the suggestion in the default /etc/eixrc file
and put there only those variables which you intentionally want to change,
then the variable containing "none" has been one of those which you
have manually modified. But for those variables, cfg-update cannot help you
either.