[gentoo-alt] portage failure on fedora-18

[Burcin Erocal]

Hi,

the following traceback with prefix-portage.2.2.01.21580 was reported
by Volker Braun here [1]:


* setting up some guessed defaults
* Your profile is set to 
/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/dist/portage/profiles/lmnd/linux/amd64.
* Your make.globals is prepared for your current bootstrap
* prefix-portage successfully bootstrapped
[21/29] EmergePackage: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/local/bin/emerge", line 51, in 
<module>
    retval = emerge_main()
  File 
"/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/local/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", 
line 1033, in emerge_main
    settings, trees, mtimedb = load_emerge_config()
  File 
"/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/local/lib/portage/pym/portage/proxy/objectproxy.py", 
line 31, in __call__
    return result(*args, **kwargs)
  File 
"/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/local/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", 
line 3170, in load_emerge_config
    setconfig = load_default_config(settings, root_trees)
  File 
"/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/local/lib/portage/pym/portage/_sets/__init__.py", 
line 311, in load_default_config
    return SetConfig(_getfiles(), settings, trees)
  File 
"/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/local/lib/portage/pym/portage/_sets/__init__.py", 
line 64, in __init__
    for p in paths:
  File 
"/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/local/lib/portage/pym/portage/_sets/__init__.py", 
line 303, in _getfiles
    dbapi = trees["porttree"].dbapi
  File 
"/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/local/lib/portage/pym/portage/util/__init__.py", 
line 1375, in __getitem__
    result = lazy_item.func(*pargs, **kwargs)
  File 
"/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/local/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/porttree.py", 
line 1033, in __init__
    self.dbapi = portdbapi(mysettings=settings)
  File 
"/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/local/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/porttree.py", 
line 180, in __init__
    self.depcachedir, x, self._known_keys, **cache_kwargs)
  File 
"/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/local/lib/portage/pym/portage/cache/flat_hash.py", 
line 39, in __init__
    self._ensure_dirs()
  File 
"/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/local/lib/portage/pym/portage/cache/fs_template.py", 
line 72, in _ensure_dirs
    os.chown(base, -1, self._gid)
  File 
"/home/vbraun/Code/lmnd_test_dir/local/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", 
line 225, in __call__
    rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs)
TypeError: group id must be integer


Volker reports [1] that changing line 72 in
pym/portage/cache/fs_template.py to

    os.chown(base, -1, int(self._gid))

fixes the issue.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/lmnd-devel/TpP4sEhVFrw/discussion
[2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lmnd-devel/TpP4sEhVFrw/iMnDZU9uTGsJ


Is there a better solution?


Cheers,
Burcin