Bug 62929 – shorewall-1.4.10b.ebuild: line 41: syntax error: unexpected end of file

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED FIXED

[Description Ian Brandt 2004-09-05 08:49:21 UTC]

>>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /var/db/pkg/net-firewall/shorewall-1.4.10b/shorewall-1.4.10b.ebuild: line 39: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /var/db/pkg/net-firewall/shorewall-1.4.10b/shorewall-1.4.10b.ebuild: line 41: syntax error: unexpected end of file

!!! ERROR: net-firewall/shorewall-1.4.10b failed.
!!! Function , Line 1299, Exitcode 1
!!! error sourcing ebuild

!!! FAILED prerm: 1

>>> Unmerging net-firewall/shorewall-1.4.10b...
No package files given... Grabbing a set.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Ian Brandt 2004-09-05 08:50:48 UTC]

Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 1600+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib apache2 berkdb cjk crypt dga foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib innodb java jikes jpeg jpg kde leim libg++ libwww mad mmx motif mozilla mule mysql ncurses nls opengl pam pdflib perl png postgres postgresql python qt qtmt readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype wmf x86 xml xml2 xv zlib"

[Comment 2 Jon Hood (RETIRED) 2004-09-05 10:57:12 UTC]

This is a bug from a long time ago that I see popping up occasionally. If you can, try to edit /var/db/pkg/net-firewall/shorewall-1.4.10b/shorewall-1.4.10b.ebuild using your favorite text editor and look for some symbol in the place of where some quotation marks should be. If that doesn't work, backup that file and you can TRY this:

# cp /usr/portage/net-firewall/shorewall/shorewall-1.4.10f.ebuild /var/db/pkg/net-firewall/shorewall-1.4.10b/shorewall-1.4.10b.ebuild

though I've never tried the later method.

[Comment 3 Jon Hood (RETIRED) 2004-09-05 12:01:41 UTC]

This happened to a few ebuilds a long time ago in portage from a bad rsync mirror (I think). The solution is to open up /var/db/pkg/net-firewall/shorewall-1.4.10b/shorewall-1.4.10b.ebuild in your text editor and change the (^A) symbols in there to quotation marks ("). Everything should work fine after that.

[Comment 4 Ian Brandt 2004-09-05 12:17:38 UTC]

That did it.  Thanks!