From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_06_12, DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_FROM,FROM_LOCAL_DIGITS,FROM_LOCAL_HEX, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.18]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14VqeE-0004s4-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 00:58:46 -0700 Received: from fwd07.sul.t-online.com by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14VqfJ-0001yX-05; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:59:53 +0100 Received: from helios.bagwan (320095285153-0001@[217.80.39.199]) by fwd07.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14VqfC-0SOA3UC; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:59:46 +0100 Received: (qmail 858 invoked by uid 0); 22 Feb 2001 10:41:59 -0000 Received: from sadchitananda2.bagwan (HELO gottinger.de) (achim@192.168.2.1) by helios.bagwan with SMTP; 22 Feb 2001 10:41:59 -0000 Message-ID: <3A94C0BB.169343DD@gottinger.de> From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portage 1.5_pre5 References: <20010221102942.B8459@cvs.gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 320095285153-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: achim@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Feb 22 00:59:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:33:15 +0100 X-Archives-Salt: f0acdfbc-2192-474f-b65f-c7e09ce8affe X-Archives-Hash: fcfb3b748d5790e3bd0796b406649280 drobbins@gentoo.org wrote: > > 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. Great it works. Looks like creating dirs in virtual to fake installed packages caused my errors. thx achim~ > > -- > Daniel Robbins > President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org > Gentoo Technologies, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev