i want to update/unmerge msn-transport from jabber, but it fails. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -C msn-transport Actual Results: s15144503 jabber # emerge -C msn-transport net-im/msn-transport selected: 1.2.8_rc1 20040531 protected: none omitted: none >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. >>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting... >>> (Control-C to abort)... >>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 >>> Unmerging net-im/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1... No package files given... Grabbing a set. /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /var/db/pkg/net-im/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1.ebuild: line 35: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /var/db/pkg/net-im/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1.ebuild: line 38: syntax error: unexpected end of file !!! ERROR: net-im/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1 failed. !!! Function , Line 1297, Exitcode 1 !!! error sourcing ebuild !!! FAILED prerm: 1 Expected Results: remove msn-transport Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.4.26-grsec-2.0) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-grsec-2.0 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="apache2 berkdb crypt curl foomaticdb gd gd-external gdbm gif gtk2 imap innodb ipv6 jpeg libwww mad maildir mcal mysql ncurses nls pam pdflib perl php png python readline sasl sdl slang sse ssl tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml xml2 zlib"
hi, i could fix it with remove the file: rm /var/db/pkg/net-im/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1/msn-transport-1.2.8_rc1.ebuild after that, i was able to remove msn-transport.