During operation, cave reports QA warnings about too many tokens in profiles/package.mask caused by comments placed on the same line as masks, which is not allowed: charlotte:~# cave report cave@1493286866: [QA e.mask.malformed] In thread ID '6382': ... In program cave report: ... When generating masks for ID 'app-accessibility/at-spi2-atk-2.22.0:2::gentoo': ... When loading repository masks for 'gentoo': ... When adding profile configuration file '/var/db/paludis/repositories/gentoo/profiles/package.mask': ... Line '=dev-db/redis-3.2.5-r2 # except somebody bumped it out of pattern' in '/var/db/paludis/repositories/gentoo/profiles/package.mask' contains multiple tokens; ignoring cave@1493286866: [QA e.mask.malformed] (same context) Line '=dev-db/redis-3.2.6-r2 # except somebody bumped it out of pattern' in '/var/db/paludis/repositories/gentoo/profiles/package.mask' contains multiple tokens; ignoring cave@1493286871: [QA e.mask.malformed] In thread ID '6382': ... In program cave report: ... When generating masks for ID 'virtual/linux-sources-9998:0::meterriblerepo': ... When loading repository masks for 'meterriblerepo': ... When adding profile configuration file '/var/db/paludis/repositories/gentoo/profiles/package.mask': ... Line '=dev-db/redis-3.2.5-r2 # except somebody bumped it out of pattern' in '/var/db/paludis/repositories/gentoo/profiles/package.mask' contains multiple tokens; ignoring cave@1493286871: [QA e.mask.malformed] (same context) Line '=dev-db/redis-3.2.6-r2 # except somebody bumped it out of pattern' in '/var/db/paludis/repositories/gentoo/profiles/package.mask' contains multiple tokens; ignoring cave report 8.68s user 0.43s system 99% cpu 9.120 total charlotte:~# The offending lines are around line 375: # Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> (18 Nov 2016) # Depends on slotted lua, # odd revisions are slotted lua, # even revisions are unslotted lua =dev-db/redis-3.2.5-r1 =dev-db/redis-3.2.5-r2 # except somebody bumped it out of pattern =dev-db/redis-3.2.5-r5 =dev-db/redis-3.2.6-r1 =dev-db/redis-3.2.6-r2 # except somebody bumped it out of pattern =dev-db/redis-3.2.6-r5 =dev-db/redis-3.2.8-r1
Format: - comment lines begin with # (no inline comments) - one DEPEND atom per line
+1 A lot of collegues get confused here and try to fix things, just caused by the strange output. Please move the inline comment in package.mask to separate lines, that's all.
Created attachment 472660 [details, diff] fix for replacing inline comment with comment on previous line Come ooon, guys, it's not that hard but awfully annoying. Patch attached for fixing this in even less than half a minute.
Apparently this was (finally…) silently fixed by cleanup after removal of old versions.
