Bug 333249 – Odd package name perl-gcpan/Exporter has snuck into repository

• Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Kevin O'Gorman 2010-08-17 22:55:59 UTC]

Every time I run emerge for the last couple of weeks, I get this warning:
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies \
!!! 'perl-gcpan/Exporter' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories

And sure enough, there is no such category.  Perl has an Exporter, but it has nothing directly to do with CPAN (except for being listed there like all Perl
modules are).  The closest thing 'eix cpan' finds seems to be app-portage/g-cpan
 
eix-sync and emerge sync don't change anything.

So: how do I get rid of this thing?

++ kevin

[Comment 1 Kevin O'Gorman 2010-08-17 22:57:06 UTC]

> treat ~ # emerge --info
> Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1-kosmanor i686)
> =================================================================
> System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1-kosmanor-i686-Intel-R-_XEON-TM-_CPU_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
> Timestamp of tree: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:45:01 +0000
> app-shells/bash:     4.0_p37
> dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
> dev-lang/python:     2.4.6, 2.5.4-r4, 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4
> dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
> sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
> sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
> sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
> sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
> sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
> sys-devel/gcc:       4.1.2, 4.3.4, 4.4.3-r2
> sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
> sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
> virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
> ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA @EULA @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE"
> CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-Wall -g -m32 -ansi"
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb"
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
> CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx"
> DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y"
> FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://www.cyberuse.com/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.llarian.net/"
> LANG="en_US.utf8"
> LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
> LDFLAGS="-m32"
> LINGUAS="en en_US fr de es pl"
> MAKEOPTS="-j1"
> PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
> PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
> PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/overlay"
> SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi aim alsa apache2 apm bash-completion bcmath berkdb branding bzip2 cairo calendar caps cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups cxx dbm dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam fastcgi flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif git gphoto2 gpm gtk guile hal iconv icq imap imlib ipv6 java jbig joystick jpeg kde lcms ldap libnotify libwww mad mailwrapper mbox mcal mikmod mime mmap mmx mng modules motif mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nis nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc offensive ogg openal opengl openmp oscar pam pango pcre pdf perl pic plotutils png posix postgres ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection ruby samba sdl session snmp sockets spell spl sse ssl startup-notification subversion svg svga symlink sysfs sysvipc tcpd tetex tiff tk truetype unicode usb vorbis x264 x86 xml xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US fr de es pl" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mach64 vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
> Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
> 

[Comment 2 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2010-08-18 06:59:05 UTC]

app-portage/g-cpan puts its generated ebuilds into the perl-gcpan category.

Does you overlay contain this category?
Do you have perl-gcpan/Exporter installed?

[Comment 3 Kevin O'Gorman 2010-08-19 18:25:54 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> app-portage/g-cpan puts its generated ebuilds into the perl-gcpan category.
> 
> Does you overlay contain this category?
> Do you have perl-gcpan/Exporter installed?
> 

I don't think I have an overlay, but I'm not sure.
I have app-portage/g-cpan installed.
Exporter is not installed.  "eix Exporter" finds 4 packages, none of them
in perl-gcpan and none of them installed. The closest match is the last:
dev-perl/Sub-Exporter but it's not installed.

------------------- start here ------------------- 
treat kevin # eix Exporter
* dev-java/xml-im-exporter
     Available versions:  1.1-r1 {doc elibc_FreeBSD source}
     Homepage:            http://xml-im-exporter.sourceforge.net/
     Description:         XML Im-/Exporter is a library to assist you in the process of importing and exporting XML.

* dev-perl/Exporter-Cluster
     Available versions:  0.31
     Homepage:            http://search.cpan.org/~dhageman/
     Description:         Extension for easy multiple module imports

* dev-perl/Exporter-Lite
     Available versions:  0.02
     Homepage:            http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/Exporter-Lite-0.02/
     Description:         Lightweight exporting of variables

* dev-perl/Sub-Exporter
     Available versions:  0.982
     Homepage:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sub-Exporter/
     Description:         A sophisticated exporter for custom-built routines

Found 4 matches.
treat kevin # 
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[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-08-21 03:22:36 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > app-portage/g-cpan puts its generated ebuilds into the perl-gcpan category.
> > 
> > Does you overlay contain this category?
> > Do you have perl-gcpan/Exporter installed?
> > 
> 
> I don't think I have an overlay, but I'm not sure.
> I have app-portage/g-cpan installed.

Heh. In Comment #1 you have an overlay:

PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/overlay"

[Comment 5 Kevin O'Gorman 2010-08-22 14:06:11 UTC]

My bad.  The offending entry was in my world file!  Not even an overlay.