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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] portage failure on fedora-18
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:26:19
Message-Id: 5105D3B6.5040906@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] portage failure on fedora-18 by Burcin Erocal
1 On 01/27/2013 03:08 PM, Burcin Erocal wrote:
2 > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:54:59 -0800
3 > Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On 01/27/2013 01:43 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
6 >>> On 27-01-2013 22:23:26 +0100, Burcin Erocal wrote:
7 >>>> Hi,
8 >>>>
9 >>>> the following traceback with prefix-portage.2.2.01.21580 was
10 >>>> reported by Volker Braun here [1]:
11 >>>
12 >>> could this bug be related to this?
13 >>>
14 >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/454060
15 >>
16 >> That seems like a separate issue though it involves the same
17 >> portage.data.portage_gid proxy object.
18 >>
19 >> The "TypeError: group id must be integer" thing seems dependent on the
20 >> python interpreter, since it works for my in all of the interpreters
21 >> that I have installed. See attached test case.
22 >
23 > The problem was with this interpreter:
24 >
25 > Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug 9 2012, 17:23:57)
26 > [GCC 4.7.1 20120720 (Red Hat 4.7.1-5)] on linux2
27 >
28 > Perhaps Red Hat patches their python in some way to cause this.
29 >
30 > See here for more output from this interpreter:
31 >
32 > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lmnd-devel/TpP4sEhVFrw/w9yPjQ0f__EJ
33
34 I can reproduce this using Python 2.7.3 from the Fedora 18 Live CD.
35 Here's a workaround:
36
37 http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=4021d5a9723b353823ba52cb5e9080de3acf7b68
38 --
39 Thanks,
40 Zac