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From: Robert Persson <ireneshusband@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] either emerge or portage is completely broken
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 05:33:08
Message-Id: 200512292127.54124.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk
1 I ran emerge sync earlier this evening and I got the following at the end of
2 the output:
3
4 Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2005
5 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
6 .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move'
7 s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*'
8 .Traceback (most recent call last):
9 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 10, in ?
10 import portage
11 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7480, in ?
12 do_upgrade(mykey)
13 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7385, in do_upgrade
14 key=dep_getkey(line.split()[0])
15 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3609, in dep_getkey
16 if mydep[-1]=="*":
17 IndexError: string index out of range
18
19 I now get the same error messages when I try to emerge anything, including
20 portage. In other words portage is completely broken.
21
22 What should I do?
23
24 Many thanks
25 Robert
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27 Robert Persson
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Re: [gentoo-user] either emerge or portage is completely broken Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>