Portage 2.2.27, python 2.7.11 I use binary packages, and have done so successfully for the last 5 or so years. With an update to portage, I now have this issue when running any emerge command: krantz ~ # emerge -a nginx Connected to portage-build.zx2c4.com. Fetching /Packages to /tmp/tmpfmqx8I /Packages 100% 1165KB 1.1MB/s 1.1MB/s 00:00 ================================================================================================ ======== Traceback for invalid call to portage.package.ebuild.config.config.__getitem__ ======== File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/emerge", line 50, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/main.py", line 1185, in emerge_main return run_action(emerge_config) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py", line 3219, in run_action emerge_config.opts) \ File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/proxy/objectproxy.py", line 31, in __call__ return result(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/post_emerge.py", line 43, in display_news_notification news_counts = count_unread_news(portdb, vardb) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/news.py", line 391, in count_unread_news count = manager.getUnreadItems(repo, update=True) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/news.py", line 177, in getUnreadItems self.updateItems(repoid) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/news.py", line 147, in updateItems config=self.config, vardb=self.vdb): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/news.py", line 249, in isRelevant **portage._native_kwargs(kwargs)): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/news.py", line 341, in checkRestriction if kwargs['config']['ARCH'] == self.keyword: File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py", line 2570, in __getitem__ return self._getitem(key) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py", line 2623, in _getitem raise KeyError(mykey) KeyError: u'ARCH'
Ahh, just needed to add ARCH=amd64 to my /etc/portage/make.profile/make.defaults. Shouldn't this be transmitted by Packages though?
This was fixed in the patch for bug 572826.
Fixed in 2.2.28.