Bug 63429 – portage should handle invalid virtuals file better

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sebastian Dröge 2004-09-09 08:01:49 UTC]

Hi,
when using cascading profiles (default-linux/ppc/2004.2) with portage portage 2.0.51_pre20 on ppc I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 14, in ?
    import portage
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6878, in ?
    do_vartree(settings)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6863, in do_vartree
    if not virts_p.has_key(vkeysplit[1]):
IndexError: list index out of range


On x86 it works as it should

[Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2004-09-09 17:01:03 UTC]

Just guessing... but is your virtuals file in the profiles valid?

[Comment 2 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2004-09-10 03:15:07 UTC]

I'll have a look at the cascading profiles for ppc. If I'm not mistaken I just copied the flat ones into the cascading directory.

[Comment 3 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2004-09-10 05:28:16 UTC]

jason@localhost ~ $ cat gentoo-x86/profiles/default-linux/ppc/virtuals
This file is not empty

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-09-10 22:22:51 UTC]

ok, so the profile is stupid ... looks like Pieter created it that way ... at any rate, ive removed the offending virtuals file

the bug here is that portage should have been like 'the virtuals file at default-linux/ppc/virtuals is corrupt'

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2006-11-07 03:46:49 UTC]

This is fixed in svn r4980 (substituted grabdict_package for grabdict).

[Comment 6 Zac Medico 2006-11-07 15:32:16 UTC]

This has been released in 2.1.2_rc1-r5.