| Summary: | sys-apps/portage: varexpand IndexError triggered by string ending with $ | ||
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| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Zac Medico <zmedico> |
| Component: | Core | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | arpad.kunszt, c.affolter |
| Priority: | Normal | Keywords: | InVCS |
| Version: | 2.2 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| URL: | https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1016432.html | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 484436 | ||
There's a patch in the following branch: https://github.com/zmedico/portage/tree/bug_548556 I've posted it for review here: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/d4bf671f303983866214866427de66a1 This is in the master branch: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=1375a55bd6f9a35ee1a4b4ec78b84f830cfb41a9 Hello, Zac.
I'm getting "mystring[pos]" errors when trying to emerge any package (including portage itself):
>>> Installing (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.2.18::gentoo
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/_MergeProcess.py", line 234, in _spawn
prev_mtimes=self.prev_mtimes, counter=counter)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4985, in merge
counter=counter)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4178, in treewalk
self._linkmap_rebuild(include_file=needed)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 2941, in _linkmap_rebuild
self.vartree.dbapi._linkmap.rebuild(**kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/util/_dyn_libs/LinkageMapELF.py", line 343, in rebuild
for x in entry.runpaths)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/util/_dyn_libs/LinkageMapELF.py", line 343, in <genexpr>
for x in entry.runpaths)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/util/__init__.py", line 844, in varexpand
if mystring[pos] == "{":
IndexError: string index out of range
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should I just apply patch locally?
Yes, that will get it indicating what is causing the indexerror and/or get it working. Released in portage-2.2.19 |
$ python -c 'from portage.util import varexpand; varexpand("$")' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/portage/util/__init__.py", line 853, in varexpand if mystring[pos] == "{":