Bug 29158

Summary:	emerge sync global updates fails on binaries moved to new directory
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Neil McCalden <nmcc>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Neil McCalden 2003-09-19 17:22:58 UTC

emerge sync reported errors trying to update binary packages, this is starting 
to happen rather too frequently.

The error message is wrong and misleading, the destination does not exist.

The problem is that the new directory, sys-fs in this example, does not exist
and emerge/fixpackages is not creating. The move fails and is incorrectly
reported.

Cannot update binary: Destination exists.
!!! sys-apps/devfsd-1.3.25-r3 -> sys-fs/devfsd-1.3.25-r3

nm-a1% ls -l /usr/portage/packages/sys-fs/*
zsh: no matches found: /usr/portage/packages/sys-fs/*
nm-a1% ls -l /usr/portage/packages/sys-fs/.
ls: /usr/portage/packages/sys-fs/.: No such file or directory

nm-a1% ls -l /usr/portage/packages/sys-apps/devfsd*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 portage  portage        28 Apr 16 00:58
/usr/portage/packages/sys-apps/devfsd-1.3.25-r3.tbz2 -> ../All/devfsd-1.3.25-r3.tbz2
lrwxrwxrwx    1 portage  portage        25 Apr 16 00:58
/usr/portage/packages/sys-apps/devfsd-1.3.25.tbz2 -> ../All/devfsd-1.3.25.tbz2

nm-a1% ls -l /usr/portage/packages/All/devfsd*
-rw-r--r--    1 portage  portage     37224 Sep  6 16:32
/usr/portage/packages/All/devfsd-1.3.25-r3.tbz2

nm-a1% epm -q portage
portage-2.0.49-r3



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge sync
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
 Cannot update binary: Destination exists.
!!! sys-apps/devfsd-1.3.25-r3 -> sys-fs/devfsd-1.3.25-r3
.@!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists.
!!! sys-apps/e2fsprogs-1.32-r2 -> sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.32-r2
!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists.
!!! sys-apps/e2fsprogs-1.33 -> sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.33
............!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists.
!!! sys-apps/reiserfsprogs-3.6.8 -> sys-fs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.8


Expected Results:  

fixpackages should check if the destination directory exists and if not create
it prior to trying to move the package file.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-09-19 17:32:33 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29021 ***