Bug 84920 – Use flags in CVS are h0rked.

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2005-03-11 18:21:16 UTC]

skyfw@kyoto skyfw $ emerge -pv mplayer
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r5 -eutils -flag-o-matic -kernel-mod (-multilib) -toolchain-funcs
Total size of downloads: 0 kB

skyfw@kyoto skyfw $ emerge info
Portage 1.585-cvs (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-hardened-r3 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.10-hardened-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar  5 2005, 02:36:29)]
distcc: No such file or directory [disabled]
ccache: No such file or directory [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="no"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache confcache digest distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/home/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X acpi alsa apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bmp canna caps cdr cjk crypt curl dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd ethereal fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad maildir matroska mikmod mmx mono motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nis nls nptl offensive oggvorbis openal opengl pam pdflib perl png posix python qt quicktime readline real sdl spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts wxwindows xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

I received this message only once; it is not repoducable.
dns root # emerge -Dupv world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies |auxdb exception: (/usr/portage::sys-libs/glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2): sys-libs/glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2 is corrupt: _eclasses_ field was of invalid len 1
auxdb exception: (/usr/portage::sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r12): sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r12 is corrupt: _eclasses_ field was of invalid len 1

[Comment 1 Brian Harring (RETIRED) 2005-03-11 18:29:16 UTC]

Re-open if it's triggerable continually...
Most likely, you didn't wipe the cache after upgrading...
the .51 cache isn't compatible with the cache rewrite since the eclass loc/mtimes are now stored in the cache backend, rather then a seperate db...