[gentoo-dev] Need help with Bug 7887 - aux_get() errors

[gentoo-dev] Need help with Bug 7887 - aux_get() errors

[Michael Cummings]

Hey all,

	I have a bug in my queue that I can't figure out, was hoping someone might be able to help me. It's bug 7887 on bugz, and I've seen this before (experienced it in fact) with a line in an ebuild that portage couldn't understand (needed an even newer version of portage at the time). When the user does an emerge -pu world, he recieves:

Calculating world dependencies |portage: aux_get(): error processing DEPEND for
dev-perl/MIME-Base64-2.12-r1; exiting.

	This bug came to me because I am the default perl guy, but I've been through both the MIME-Base64 ebuild and the half dozen or so that depend on it directly and come up empty handed. Can anyone out there lend their expertise? I don't want to blame portage, that's too easy, but I can't make heads or tails of where the error is occurrying, can't duplicate, and the user's attached strace doesn't reveal anything (to me, who is very non-conversant in strace's). Thanks!

Michael

Re: [gentoo-dev] Need help with Bug 7887 - aux_get() errors

[Michael Cummings]

Henti,

	You are awesome! Didn't think it was related to perl, but perl
was the only thing showing up, hence my getting the ticket. Don't know
if you added yourself to the bug report or not, but the user just wrote
back that he tried your solution and it worked like a charm! Thank you
so much, this ticket has been plaguing me. Thank you again,

Michael

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 04:55:29PM +0200, Henti Smith wrote:
> I don't think this is related to perl .. I'm having the same problem on one on my boxes but with bash ... here is the error 
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order.
> 
> Calculating system dependencies /portage: aux_get(): error processing DEPEND for sys-apps/bash-2.05a-r3; exiting.
> 
> So I think portage should take owership again ... just for the record .. here is my strace
> 
> I resolved the issue by rm'ing rm /var/cache/edb/dep/sys-apps/bash-2.05a-r3 which was empty ... 
> then running "emerge bash" to rebuild and redo the entry (don't know if there is an easer way) 
> 
> works fine now ... and the /var/cache/edb/dep/sys-apps/bash-2.05a-r3 entry contains what it sould .. 
> 
> Henti
> 
> 

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] Need help with Bug 7887 - aux_get() errors

[Henti Smith]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:04:41 -0400
Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Henti,
> 
> 	You are awesome! Didn't think it was related to perl, but perl
> was the only thing showing up, hence my getting the ticket. Don't know
> if you added yourself to the bug report or not, but the user just wrote
> back that he tried your solution and it worked like a charm! Thank you
> so much, this ticket has been plaguing me. Thank you again,
> 
> Michael

Hi Michael ... 

I replied to he's mail on the bug report .. I did add myself to the CC list ... tho I think it has solved he's problem .. I'm not sure he understood what caused it ..
he should have emerged the perl module .. not bash ;P bash was my problem .. 

Henti