Bug 398103

Summary:	app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0.4-r5 - "eclean -t 1y packages" aborts if dangling symlinks are encountered
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Norman Back <gentoo3>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	346443
Attachments:	Modified clean.py that fixes the issue in an untidy fashion

Description Norman Back 2012-01-07 23:19:08 UTC

"eclean  -t 1y packages" aborts if dangling symlinks are encountered

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Manually delete an old file from packages/ALL
2. Run eclean -t <time> where <time> includes the deleted file

Actual Results:  
1. Manually delete an old file from packages/ALL
2. Run eclean -t <time> where <time> includes the deleted file
3. eclean aborts when the symlink to the deleted file is detected.

Expected Results:  
1. Manually delete an old file from packages/ALL
2. Run eclean -t <time> where <time> includes the deleted file
3. eclean deletes the dangling symlink and other packages selected

Comment 1 Norman Back 2012-01-07 23:21:40 UTC

Created attachment 298285 [details, diff]
Modified clean.py that fixes the issue in an untidy fashion

Comment 2 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-01-22 17:54:38 UTC

done.  fixed in commit: 
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/p=proj/gentoolkit.git;a=commit;h=0f152f27af3b758b904d257931c17da490468b8e

However, the final fix was not quite the way you modified it in the attached file.

Thank you.

the fix is available now in gentoolkit-9999.

Comment 3 Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-02-29 16:24:06 UTC

Released in gentoolkit-0.3.0.5