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Bug 54626

Summary: uninstall msn-transport fails
Product: Gentoo Infrastructure Reporter: Denny Schierz <linuxmail>
Component: BugzillaAssignee: Benjamin Coles <sj7trunks>
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Denny Schierz 2004-06-21 05:26:46 UTC
i want to update/unmerge msn-transport from jabber, but it fails.




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -C msn-transport


Actual Results:  
 
s15144503 jabber # emerge -C msn-transport 
 
 net-im/msn-transport 
    selected: 1.2.8_rc1 20040531 
   protected: none 
     omitted: none 
 
>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 
>>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. 
 
>>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting... 
>>> (Control-C to abort)... 
>>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 
>>> Unmerging net-im/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1... 
No package files given... Grabbing a set. 
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /var/db/pkg/net-im/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1.ebuild: 
line 35: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' 
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /var/db/pkg/net-im/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1.ebuild: 
line 38: syntax error: unexpected end of file 
 
!!! ERROR: net-im/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1 failed. 
!!! Function , Line 1297, Exitcode 1 
!!! error sourcing ebuild 
 
!!! FAILED prerm: 1 
 

Expected Results:  
remove msn-transport 

Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.4.26-grsec-2.0) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.26-grsec-2.0 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="apache2 berkdb crypt curl foomaticdb gd gd-external gdbm gif gtk2 imap innodb ipv6 
jpeg libwww mad maildir mcal mysql ncurses nls pam pdflib perl php png python readline sasl 
sdl slang sse ssl tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml xml2 zlib"
Comment 1 Denny Schierz 2004-06-21 05:31:39 UTC
hi,

i could fix it with remove the file:

rm /var/db/pkg/net-im/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1.ebuild


after that, i was able to remove msn-transport.