Running "emerge -p -u world" on my recent 1.4rc1 install results in the following traceback: $ emerge -p -u world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies \Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1754, in ? if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 939, in xcreate if not self.create(myk): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 747, in create if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 814, in select_dep mycheck=portage.dep_check(depstring,self.mydbapi[myroot]) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2220, in dep_check mylist=flatten(dep_listcleanup(dep_zapdeps(mysplit,mysplit2))) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1976, in dep_zapdeps myresult=dep_zapdeps(unreduced[x],reduced[x]) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1960, in dep_zapdeps if unreduced[0]=="||": IndexError: list index out of range Emerge info reports: # emerge info Portage 2.0.46-r2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) USE="x86 oss apm avi cups encode gif gpm imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses oggvorbis pdflib png qtmt quicktime sdl spell svga truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline java X tcpd pam ssl perl python opengl -3dnow -arts -gnome -gtk -kde -qt -nls directfb cdr dvd mozilla pda crypt snmp" ARCH="x86" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" MAKEOPTS="-j2" JDK_HOME="" JAVA_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jre-1.3.1" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" sys-apps/portage is version 2.0.46-r2 Looking at the file /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py the following diff seems like a logical fix to me, but this is the first time I've even looked at a Python program. diff -c portage.py-orig portage.py *** portage.py-orig Sun Dec 22 11:13:52 2002 --- portage.py Fri Jan 3 18:01:47 2003 *************** *** 1957,1962 **** --- 1957,1964 ---- def dep_zapdeps(unreduced,reduced): """Takes an unreduced and reduced deplist and removes satisfied dependencies. Returned deplist contains steps that must be taken to satisfy dependencies.""" + if len(unreduced)==0: + return None if unreduced[0]=="||": if dep_eval(reduced): #deps satisfied, return None With the patch in place the emerge completes with a mozilla vs gnupg dependency problem but that is an already reported bug.
i'm still not sure why this breaks || nick
Update portage.
