Bug 359675 – sys-devel/libtool-2.2.10 fails with "Parse error in '/var/db/pkg/sys-devel/libtool-2.2.10/CONTENTS"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Emanuele Dalla Longa 2011-03-20 22:54:36 UTC]

I attach the standard output and the standard error log.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge libtool
2.
3.


Expected Results:  
emerge correctly

[Comment 1 Emanuele Dalla Longa 2011-03-20 22:55:34 UTC]

Created attachment 266659 [details]
stdout & stderr of portage

[Comment 2 Emanuele Dalla Longa 2011-03-20 23:01:01 UTC]

Created attachment 266663 [details]
stderr & stdout

the previous file was only stdout, my bad

[Comment 3 Emanuele Dalla Longa 2011-03-20 23:14:36 UTC]

Added link to a bug showing similar error.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2011-03-21 06:50:57 UTC]

please post `emerge --info` like the bug reporting pages say to

[Comment 5 Emanuele Dalla Longa 2011-03-27 12:29:15 UTC]

Created attachment 267389 [details]
the requested emerge --info

i'm sorry for not having posted this before, i'm rather new to the bugzilla.

[Comment 6 Emanuele Dalla Longa 2011-03-27 13:15:49 UTC]

Created attachment 267395 [details]
the file mentioned in the error

I've noticed that this "CONTENTS" file is different from the other ones: there are no "dir" or "obj" tags at the beginning of the line. Maybe this is the matter: how do I solve it?

[Comment 7 Zac Medico 2011-03-27 21:08:39 UTC]

Created attachment 267441 [details, diff]
patch for portage-2.1.9.42

Save as /tmp/portage-2.1.9.42.patch and apply as follows:

  cd /usr/lib/portage
  patch -p1 < /tmp/portage-2.1.9.42.patch

This patch includes the following two commits:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=c66a8136b431ec42ea02e6378ed1f6981d7ef81a
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=e988ead0427787a40f2e9b0c4827d67b876bbda4

[Comment 8 Zac Medico 2011-03-27 23:28:25 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.9.45 and 2.2.0_alpha29.

[Comment 9 Emanuele Dalla Longa 2011-03-28 19:25:14 UTC]

This worked. Many thanks developers!.