My package.keywords after an error while running a script i wrote: ---------- net-irc/supybot net-mail/vqadmin net-mail/qmail-lint dev-util/subversion * Error: Could not find esearch-index. Please run eupdatedb as root first ---------- Instead of a legible error message, problems like this in package.keywords cause the following traceback, which makes it hard to figure out where the real problem lies: ---------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 10, in ? import portage File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6628, in ? settings=config(config_profile_path=PROFILE_PATH,config_incrementals=portage_const.INCREMENTALS) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1130, in __init__ pkgdict=grabdict_package(USER_CONFIG_PATH+"/package.keywords", recursive=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 792, in grabdict_package if not isvalidatom(x): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3123, in isvalidatom mycpv_cps = catpkgsplit(dep_getcpv(atom)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3325, in dep_getcpv if mydep[-1]=="*": IndexError: string index out of range ---------- Of course i should be more careful with my scripting, but it would be good if errors like this resulted in a sensible error like the "Invalid package atom" for package.mask/unmask entries.
This is in svn r3094 and released in 2.1_pre7-r5.
