Bug 56716

Summary:	macos package db corruption caused by failed emerge
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alexander Plank (RETIRED) <alexander>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	osx porters <osx>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PPC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexander Plank (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-11 12:37:44 UTC

On Gentoo MacOS, if an emerge fails, the currently emerging package's database entry becomes corrupt. This causes portage to fail when trying to do something 

Temp fix:

$sudo rm -rf /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING*

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Usually emerging zlib will corrupt its db entry. 
Actual Results:  
portage becomes borked

Expected Results:  
portage shouldn't have become borked ;-)

Comment 1 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-12 03:02:19 UTC

The first installer was portage 2.0.51_pre12 based, and had some, but not all patches to _pre13

_pre13 no longer has this problem. I'll create a pre13 with the macos patches and put it in a new installer. I'll close this bug when the installer is available.

Comment 2 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-12 18:18:42 UTC

uploading

Comment 3 Hasan Khalil (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-06 13:33:19 UTC

Closing out bugs that've been resolved for a while now...