I've recently upgraded eix from v0.23.5 to v0.23.6, and I'm now getting an empty catalogue: fredden@gordo ~ $ eix --version eix 0.23.6 (gcc-4.5.3, i686-pc-linux-gnu) fredden@gordo ~ $ eix-update Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/home/fredden/.gentoo/var/cache/eix) .. [0] "" /home/fredden/.gentoo/usr/portage/ in /home/fredden/.gentoo (cache: metadata-md5-or-flat) Reading category 154|154 (100%) EMPTY! Applying masks .. Calculating hash tables .. Writing database file /home/fredden/.gentoo/var/cache/eix .. Database contains 0 packages in 154 categories. fredden@gordo ~ $ Reinstalling v0.23.5 gets me a working eix again.
Created attachment 299201 [details] Strace output ("strace eix-update 2>&1 | tee eix-update.strace") Ran a strace as per darkside's recommendation on IRC. It looks like eix trying to open("$EPREFIX$EPREFIX/usr/portage/metadata/cache/..."). Perhaps it's prepending $EPREFIX to $PORTDIR?
since portdir is defined as ${EPREFIX}/usr/portage these days, perhaps that's causing pain here?
I cannot see that eix' behavior concerning appending EPREFIX should have changed in the last upgrade. Do you really get a different beahviour if you reemerge eix-0.23.5? If PORTDIR now is ${EPREFIX}/usr/portage and was previously /usr/portage, this will break eix, of course. How is it with overlays? Do you now also have PORTDIR_OVERLAY="${EPREFIX}/var/lib/layman/..." in the make.conf? If yes, please try whether setting EPREFIX_PORTAGE_CACHE='' works for PORTDIR *and* for overlays with and without metadata directories (This is not the final solution, just a temporary workaround for testing so that I know which paths should be changed.) Thanks in advance.
(In reply to comment #3) > Do you really get a different behaviour if you reemerge eix-0.23.5? Yes. fredden@gordo ~ $ emerge -1 =app-portage/eix-0.23.5 >/dev/null fredden@gordo ~ $ date; eix --version; eix-update Thu Jan 19 14:13:47 NZDT 2012 eix 0.23.5 (gcc-4.5.3, i686-pc-linux-gnu) Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/home/fredden/.gentoo/var/cache/eix) .. [0] "gentoo_prefix" /home/fredden/.gentoo/usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-flat) Reading category 154|154 (100%) Finished [1] "fredden_dropbox" /home/fredden/Dropbox/gentoo-overlay (cache: parse|ebuild*#metadata-md5#metadata-flat#assign) Reading category 154|154 (100%) Finished Applying masks .. Calculating hash tables .. Writing database file /home/fredden/.gentoo/var/cache/eix .. Database contains 9441 packages in 154 categories. fredden@gordo ~ $ eix -uc eix [U] app-portage/eix (0.23.5@19/01/12 -> 0.23.6): Search and query ebuilds, portage incl. local settings, ext. overlays, version changes, and more fredden@gordo ~ $ emerge -1 eix >/dev/null fredden@gordo ~ $ date; eix --version; eix-update Thu Jan 19 14:19:29 NZDT 2012 eix 0.23.6 (gcc-4.5.3, i686-pc-linux-gnu) Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/home/fredden/.gentoo/var/cache/eix) .. [0] "" /home/fredden/.gentoo/usr/portage/ in /home/fredden/.gentoo (cache: metadata-md5-or-flat) Reading category 154|154 (100%) EMPTY! [1] "fredden_dropbox" /home/fredden/Dropbox/gentoo-overlay (cache: parse|ebuild*#metadata-md5#metadata-flat#assign) Reading category 154|154 (100%) Finished Applying masks .. Calculating hash tables .. Writing database file /home/fredden/.gentoo/var/cache/eix .. Database contains 5 packages in 154 categories. fredden@gordo ~ $ eix -I eix No matches found. fredden@gordo ~ $ > If yes, please try whether setting EPREFIX_PORTAGE_CACHE='' works Looks like this does work around the issue: fredden@gordo ~ $ eix --version; EPREFIX_PORTAGE_CACHE='' eix-update eix 0.23.6 (gcc-4.5.3, i686-pc-linux-gnu) Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/home/fredden/.gentoo/var/cache/eix) .. [0] "gentoo_prefix" /home/fredden/.gentoo/usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-md5-or-flat) Reading category 154|154 (100%) Finished [1] "fredden_dropbox" /home/fredden/Dropbox/gentoo-overlay (cache: parse|ebuild*#metadata-md5#metadata-flat#assign) Reading category 154|154 (100%) Finished Applying masks .. Calculating hash tables .. Writing database file /home/fredden/.gentoo/var/cache/eix .. Database contains 9441 packages in 154 categories. fredden@gordo ~ $
Thanks. It was really a regression of eix-0.23.6 This should be fixed in the current eix git master branch (>=eix-0.23.7)
+*eix-0.23.7 (23 Jan 2012) + + 23 Jan 2012; Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org> -eix-0.23.6.ebuild, + +eix-0.23.7.ebuild: + Version bump to fix regressions in last version, fixes bugs 399233, 399117, + 399451
