As described in the URL, as soon as such an entry hits the local portage tree, all subsequent calls to "emerge sync" fails, because first a "Global update" is performed, which fails: * Running emerge --sync Performing Global Updates: (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' #='/var/db update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' %='binary move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2011.......................... /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2011...... ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2 dev-php/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1616, in emerge_main _global_updates(trees, mtimedb["updates"], quiet=("--quiet" in myopts)): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/_global_updates.py", line 160, in _global_updates moves = vardb.move_ent(update_cmd, repo_match=repo_match) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 300, in move_ent origmatches = self.match(origcp, use_cache=0) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 474, in match origdep, mydb=self, use_cache=use_cache, settings=self.settings) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/dep_expand.py", line 33, in dep_expand mydep = Atom(mydep, allow_repo=True) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dep/__init__.py", line 1103, in __init__ raise InvalidAtom(self) InvalidAtom: dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2 * emerge --sync failed * Time statistics: 1 seconds for syncing 1 seconds total Performing Global Updates: (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' #='/var/db update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' %='binary move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2011.......................... /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2011...... ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2 dev-php/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1616, in emerge_main _global_updates(trees, mtimedb["updates"], quiet=("--quiet" in myopts)): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/_global_updates.py", line 160, in _global_updates moves = vardb.move_ent(update_cmd, repo_match=repo_match) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 300, in move_ent origmatches = self.match(origcp, use_cache=0) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 474, in match origdep, mydb=self, use_cache=use_cache, settings=self.settings) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/dep_expand.py", line 33, in dep_expand mydep = Atom(mydep, allow_repo=True) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dep/__init__.py", line 1103, in __init__ raise InvalidAtom(self) InvalidAtom: dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2 Reproducible: Always
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 388187 ***
