Bug 549616 – sys-app/portage-2.2.19: squashdelta type breaks egencache --update-pkg-desc-index

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) 2015-05-16 03:57:38 UTC]

big_daddy portage # emaint sync -r gentoo
>>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/var/db/repos/gentoo'...
>>> Downloading 'http://gentoo.ussg.indiana.edu/distfiles/../snapshots/squashfs/sha512sum.txt'
--2015-05-15 20:51:26--  http://gentoo.ussg.indiana.edu/snapshots/squashfs/sha512sum.txt
Resolving gentoo.ussg.indiana.edu... 156.56.247.195
Connecting to gentoo.ussg.indiana.edu|156.56.247.195|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 8373 (8.2K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘/var/cache/portage/squashfs/sha512sum.txt’

/var/cache/portage/squashfs/sha512s 100%[=====================================================================>]   8.18K  --.-KB/s   in 0.1s   

2015-05-15 20:51:27 (63.9 KB/s) - ‘/var/cache/portage/squashfs/sha512sum.txt’ saved [8373/8373]

 * gentoo-20150514-20150515.sqdelta SHA512 size ;-) ...                                                                                  [ ok ]
Re-generating search index for repo: gentoo
!!! Section 'x-portage' in repos.conf has location attribute set to nonexistent directory: '/usr/portage'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./bin/egencache", line 1121, in <module>
    sys.exit(egencache_main(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "./bin/egencache", line 1091, in egencache_main
    gen_index.run()
  File "./bin/egencache", line 468, in run
    encoding=_encodings["repo.content"])
  File "/home/brian/Dev/git/portage/pym/portage/util/__init__.py", line 1279, in __init__
    mode=mode, **portage._native_kwargs(kargs)))
IOError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/var/db/repos/gentoo/metadata/pkg_desc_index.29113'
 * Spawn failed for: search-index, /etc/portage/repo.postsync.d/search-index
^^^ test post-sync hook1 param: gentoo, mirror://gentoo/../snapshots/squashfs, /var/db/repos/gentoo
  ^^^^^^ TIME FOR ME TO DO SOME WORK ^^^^^^
*** test post-sync hook2 IGNORING gentoo, mirror://gentoo/../snapshots/squashfs, /var/db/repos/gentoo
!!! Section 'x-portage' in repos.conf has location attribute set to nonexistent directory: '/usr/portage'


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2015-05-16 05:52:58 UTC]

The IndexedPortdb class can read the the cache from /var/cache/edb/dep/${repo_path}/metadata/pkg_desc_index. It would be nice if egencache would write the cache there when ${repo_path} is read-only.

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2015-05-16 21:01:33 UTC]

There's a patch in the following branch:

https://github.com/zmedico/portage/tree/bug_549616

I've posted it for review here:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/1bf1d88fa99e8422bd60c4ca92d1d705

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2015-05-16 22:38:55 UTC]

This is in the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=28d5b7e78e0fdad2479685ec257ab5b858195007

[Comment 4 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) 2015-05-18 23:37:14 UTC]

Released in portage-2.2.20