[gentoo-amd64] Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[gentoo-amd64] Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[Peter Humphrey]

Today I got this:

$ equery d portaudio
[ Searching for packages depending on portaudio... ]
app-office/openoffice-2.2.0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1754, in ?
    cmd.perform(local_opts)
  File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1184, in perform
    print "(" + \
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'join'

I had a quick look at /usr/bin/equery but I couldn't see anything obvious. 
Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[Duncan]

Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk> posted
200704171808.43023.prh@gotadsl.co.uk, excerpted below, on  Tue, 17 Apr
2007 18:08:42 +0100:

> Today I got this:
> 
> $ equery d portaudio
> [ Searching for packages depending on portaudio... ]
> app-office/openoffice-2.2.0
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1754, in ?
>     cmd.perform(local_opts)
>   File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1184, in perform
>     print "(" + \
> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'join'
> 
> I had a quick look at /usr/bin/equery but I couldn't see anything
> obvious. Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

Hmm... you don't mention which version of gentoolkit you have merged, but 
here, with the newest 0.2.4_pre4 (merged today, but it might be a few 
days old as I hadn't updated in a week or so), I get something similar.  
portaudio is NOT merged here, but here's my output:

equery d portaudio
[ Searching for packages depending on portaudio... ]
media-sound/timidity++-2.13.2-r4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1754, in ?
    cmd.perform(local_opts)
  File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1184, in perform
    print "(" + \
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'join'

I have timidity++ merged, but not OOo, which might explain that 
difference.

FWIW, portage was updated today as well: 2.1.2.4.

I tried querying something else merged, no problem, tried something else 
NOT merged, no problem there either.  Portaudio, however, problem.

I did a quick search of bugs, didn't find anything looking like it, so 
you may wish to file one.  Please reply with the bug number so I can add 
my report too, plus CC and see how it's resolved.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[Stratos Psomadakis]

with the newest stable gentoolkit i don't have any problems with 
portaudio...


O/H Duncan έγραψε:
> Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk> posted
> 200704171808.43023.prh@gotadsl.co.uk, excerpted below, on  Tue, 17 Apr
> 2007 18:08:42 +0100:
>
>   
>> Today I got this:
>>
>> $ equery d portaudio
>> [ Searching for packages depending on portaudio... ]
>> app-office/openoffice-2.2.0
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1754, in ?
>>     cmd.perform(local_opts)
>>   File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1184, in perform
>>     print "(" + \
>> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'join'
>>
>> I had a quick look at /usr/bin/equery but I couldn't see anything
>> obvious. Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?
>>     
>
> Hmm... you don't mention which version of gentoolkit you have merged, but 
> here, with the newest 0.2.4_pre4 (merged today, but it might be a few 
> days old as I hadn't updated in a week or so), I get something similar.  
> portaudio is NOT merged here, but here's my output:
>
> equery d portaudio
> [ Searching for packages depending on portaudio... ]
> media-sound/timidity++-2.13.2-r4
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1754, in ?
>     cmd.perform(local_opts)
>   File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1184, in perform
>     print "(" + \
> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'join'
>
> I have timidity++ merged, but not OOo, which might explain that 
> difference.
>
> FWIW, portage was updated today as well: 2.1.2.4.
>
> I tried querying something else merged, no problem, tried something else 
> NOT merged, no problem there either.  Portaudio, however, problem.
>
> I did a quick search of bugs, didn't find anything looking like it, so 
> you may wish to file one.  Please reply with the bug number so I can add 
> my report too, plus CC and see how it's resolved.
>
>   

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:58:18 Duncan wrote:

>... you don't mention which version of gentoolkit you have merged

It's gentoolkit-0.2.4_pre4, same as yours.

> FWIW, portage was updated today as well: 2.1.2.4.

Yes, same here.

> I tried querying something else merged, no problem, tried something else
> NOT merged, no problem there either.  Portaudio, however, problem.
>
> I did a quick search of bugs, didn't find anything looking like it, so
> you may wish to file one.  Please reply with the bug number so I can add
> my report too, plus CC and see how it's resolved.

Ok, I'll take it up in the morning - too tired to think straight tonight. 
Thanks for your findings.

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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[Duncan]

Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk> posted
200704172320.30437.prh@gotadsl.co.uk, excerpted below, on  Tue, 17 Apr
2007 23:20:30 +0100:

> Ok, I'll take it up in the morning - too tired to think straight
> tonight.
LOL.  I can identify with that!  I wonder how many other geeks regularly 
literally doze off at the computer, then after waking do a bit and find 
they've dozed off again, repeat several times and either give up and find 
the bed, or find it's time to go to work and they haven't properly slept 
/at/ /all/?

> Thanks for your findings.

Yeah, sometimes you just need to know if someone else is seeing the same 
thing, or if it's just an artifact on a single installation.  Knowing 
either way can sure help. =8^)

You didn't mention whether you actually had portaudio merged or not, but 
I assume so.  In any case, that the equery is causing a traceback when 
it's NOT merged (as well as that it's happening on multiple systems) 
doubly points to a problem in either portage or gentoolkit, not just an 
individual case of database corruption or the like.

I regularly check the bugs listed in the portage changelogs, and have 
seen a number of "traceback" style bugs resolved.  I love the way ZMedico 
comments on the bugs, leaving a trail even those (like me) who don't "do 
code" that much/well can follow reasonably well.  While following portage 
bugs for me began as a typical sysadmin core component update 
cautiousness, it has become somewhat of a minor hobby in its own right, 
as following the bugs and their resolution is simply /interesting/! =8^)

This one (tho it's gentoolkit not portage per se, might be portage's bug 
tho, we'll see) is particularly interesting, because unlike many/most of 
the traceback bugs I've seen, it doesn't appear to be a bug in dealing 
with unexpectedly corrupt data, but rather in the code itself, given it 
occurs even here, with the package in question not merged.  Thus it has 
the potential of being doubling interesting to see the problem actually 
traced down and fixed, what happened, why, and what can be done to fix it.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20:14:53 Stratos Psomadakis wrote:

> with the newest stable gentoolkit i don't have any problems with
> portaudio...

Which version is that? 0.2.2?

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:58:18 Duncan wrote:

> Please reply with the bug number so I can add my report too, plus CC and
> see how it's resolved. 

It's number 175050.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 04:18:52 Duncan wrote:

> You didn't mention whether you actually had portaudio merged or not, but
> I assume so.

Yes; it was seeing it being updated that made me wonder what it was>

(Sorry about the fragmentation into several little messages - seems like I'm 
still not thinking clearly.)

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[Stratos Psomadakis]

it's 0.2.3-r1

O/H Peter Humphrey έγραψε:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20:14:53 Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
>
>   
>> with the newest stable gentoolkit i don't have any problems with
>> portaudio...
>>     
>
> Which version is that? 0.2.2?
>
>   

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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[Duncan]

Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk> posted
200704181037.03074.prh@gotadsl.co.uk, excerpted below, on  Wed, 18 Apr
2007 10:37:03 +0100:

> (Sorry about the fragmentation into several little messages - seems like
> I'm still not thinking clearly.)

Seems there's a bit of that going 'round.  I'm doing a bit of the same 
today.

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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[Duncan]

Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk> posted
200704181029.23951.prh@gotadsl.co.uk, excerpted below, on  Wed, 18 Apr
2007 10:29:23 +0100:

> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:58:18 Duncan wrote:
> 
>> Please reply with the bug number so I can add my report too, plus CC
>> and see how it's resolved.
> 
> It's number 175050.

OK, report added to it.  Looks like a bunch of folks are hitting the 
problem now.

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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[Duncan]

Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> posted pan.2007.04.19.02.40.11@cox.net,
excerpted below, on  Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:40:11 +0000:

> Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk> posted
> 200704181029.23951.prh@gotadsl.co.uk, excerpted below, on  Wed, 18 Apr
> 2007 10:29:23 +0100:
> 
>> It's number 175050.
> 
> OK, report added to it.  Looks like a bunch of folks are hitting the
> problem now.

...  And a fix now in SVN, it appears. =8^)

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:46:56 Duncan wrote:
> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> posted pan.2007.04.19.02.40.11@cox.net,
> excerpted below, on  Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:40:11 +0000:
> > Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk> posted
> > 200704181029.23951.prh@gotadsl.co.uk, excerpted below, on  Wed, 18 Apr
> >
> > 2007 10:29:23 +0100:
> >> It's number 175050.
> >
> > OK, report added to it.  Looks like a bunch of folks are hitting the
> > problem now.
>
> ...  And a fix now in SVN, it appears. =8^)

And the fix does work for me too, as I assume you'll see from the bug 
report.

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