[gentoo-dev] portage 1.5_pre5

[<drobbins@gentoo.org>]

Hi All,

I just committed portage 1.5_pre5, which now performs numerous consistency
checks on cat/pkg strings.  Portage should now gracefully handle invalid
current-packages lines, invalid /var/db/pkg entries, invalid /usr/portage
entries, and invalid .tbz2 files.  It will print Error messages to stdout
and continue, so that the errors can be detected and eventually corrected.

If your version of portage is dying because one of your databases
(current-packages, /var/db/pkg, or /usr/portage) has an invalid entry, simply
do this:

1. Do a cvs update.
2. Copy /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/1.5/pym/portage.py to
   /usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py

If you're not getting python errors, then a simple merge of the new version
should suffice.

Let me know if this solves the problem.

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.