Re: [gentoo-user] error in updating eix

[John covici]

on Sunday 09/21/2008 Alan McKinnon(alan.mckinnon@×××××.com) wrote
 > On Sunday 21 September 2008 10:32:12 Alan McKinnon wrote:
 > > On Sunday 21 September 2008 09:49:13 Johann Schmitz wrote:
 > > > Same Problem here on amd64.
 > > >
 > > > John covici wrote:
 > > > | I did an emerge --sync followed by update-eix and got the following
 > > > | error from update-eix:
 > > > |
 > > > | Reading Portage settings ..
 > > > | Building database (/var/cache/eix) ..
 > > > | [0] "gentoo" /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-flat)
 > > > |      Reading  50%terminate called after throwing an instance of
 > > > | 	'std::out_of_range'
 > > > |   what():  basic_string::compare
 > > > | Aborted
 > >
 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238216
 > 
 > Further workaround:
 > The problem is apparently caused by peculiar version numbers in 
 > media-fonts/ja-ipafonts
 > 
 > Delete $PORTDIR/metadata/cache/media-fonts/ja-ipafonts*
 > and rerun update-eix. It will complete.
 > 
 > The metadata files will be replaced on the next sync by which time there will 
 > hopefully be an update that fixes the underlying problem.

After my last message I saw that and a plan to release a 13.5 which
should fix the problem, so I may do that as well.

Thanks.

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