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From: ABCD <en.ABCD@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: portpeek and relative vs absolute path
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:28:56
Message-Id: h5qaes$uia$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] portpeek and relative vs absolute path by Gene Hannan
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4 Gene Hannan wrote:
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6 > I'm seeing a quirk in portpeek on one of two machines with similar
7 > installations. Portpeek responds with, for example,
8 >
9 > package.keywords:
10 > Could not find file etc/portage/package.keywords
11 >
12 > Note the absence of an initial slash. The program executes correctly
13 > from "/" as a working directory.
14 >
15 > The system is up to date, x86 with ~x86 as required for KDE-4.2 and a
16 > handful of others. Python 2.5.4 is the only version installed, and the
17 > behavior is the same with eselect-python-20090801 or -20090804.
18 >
19 > I've tried simply re-emerging portage, portpeek, eselect, and
20 > python-eselect with no effect, and seen the same behavior with
21 > gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r5 and 2.6/30-r4.
22 >
23 > My other machine with the same versions of the packages that are likely
24 > to be related executes portpeek from any working directory, as did the
25 > machine in question until a few weeks ago. Any tips on where to look
26 > next?
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28 That looks like it may be a bug in portpeek that only is appearing now
29 because portage changed some of its internals to simplify things in portage,
30 but packages using portage's internal APIs incorrectly stopped working.
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