[gentoo-user] What's wrong with emerge

[gentoo-user] What's wrong with emerge

[alain.didierjean]

#emerge --sync returns the following error:


Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2009
(Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
  .='update pass'  *='binary update'  #='/var/db update'  @='/var/db move'
  s='/var/db SLOT move'  %='binary move'  S='binary SLOT move'
  p='update /etc/portage/package.*'
.........................
ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move >=kde-base/konq-plugins-4
kde-misc/konq-plugins'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 40, in <module>
    retval = _emerge.emerge_main()
  File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 14830, in emerge_main
    if portage._global_updates(trees, mtimedb["updates"]):
  File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 7914, in
_global_updates
    moves = vardb.move_ent(update_cmd)
  File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 165, in move_ent
    raise InvalidPackageName(cp)
InvalidPackageName: >=kde-base/konq-plugins-4

Where does it come from ?
How can I fix it ?
Thanks for the help to come...

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[gentoo-user] Re: What's wrong with emerge

[Nikos Chantziaras]

alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> #emerge --sync returns the following error:
> 
> 
> Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2009
> (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
>   .='update pass'  *='binary update'  #='/var/db update'  @='/var/db move'
>   s='/var/db SLOT move'  %='binary move'  S='binary SLOT move'
>   p='update /etc/portage/package.*'
> .........................
> ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move >=kde-base/konq-plugins-4
> kde-misc/konq-plugins'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 40, in <module>
>     retval = _emerge.emerge_main()
>   File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 14830, in emerge_main
>     if portage._global_updates(trees, mtimedb["updates"]):
>   File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 7914, in
> _global_updates
>     moves = vardb.move_ent(update_cmd)
>   File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 165, in move_ent
>     raise InvalidPackageName(cp)
> InvalidPackageName: >=kde-base/konq-plugins-4
> 
> Where does it come from ?
> How can I fix it ?
> Thanks for the help to come...

It's been fixed already.  Resync to get the bugfix.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's wrong with emerge

[alain.didierjean]

Selon Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>:

> alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> > #emerge --sync returns the following error:
> >
>
> It's been fixed already.  Resync to get the bugfix.
>
Thanks. I'll have to wait till the fix reaches my mirror.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's wrong with emerge

[alain.didierjean]

Selon Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>:

> alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> > #emerge --sync returns the following error:
> >
> >
> > Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2009
> > (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
> >   .='update pass'  *='binary update'  #='/var/db update'  @='/var/db move'
> >   s='/var/db SLOT move'  %='binary move'  S='binary SLOT move'
> >   p='update /etc/portage/package.*'
> > .........................
> > ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move >=kde-base/konq-plugins-4
> > kde-misc/konq-plugins'
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 40, in <module>
> >     retval = _emerge.emerge_main()
> >   File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 14830, in
> emerge_main
> >     if portage._global_updates(trees, mtimedb["updates"]):
> >   File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 7914, in
> > _global_updates
> >     moves = vardb.move_ent(update_cmd)
> >   File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 165, in
> move_ent
> >     raise InvalidPackageName(cp)
> > InvalidPackageName: >=kde-base/konq-plugins-4
> >
> > Where does it come from ?
> > How can I fix it ?
> > Thanks for the help to come...
>
> It's been fixed already.  Resync to get the bugfix.
>

After three days, emerge --sync still returns the same error message. Is there
anything I can do on my computer to fix it ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's wrong with emerge

[Arttu V.]

On 6/3/09, alain.didierjean@free.fr <alain.didierjean@free.fr> wrote:
>
> After three days, emerge --sync still returns the same error message. Is
> there
> anything I can do on my computer to fix it ?

I don't know the portage internals well enough even to know if my
following suggestion is good or bad (and I wonder why isn't your
profiles directory updated by the sync?), but the troublemaking change
is probably the one unmade by this:

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/profiles/updates/2Q-2009?r1=1.24&r2=1.25

So, if you're feeling lucky (and nothing else works nor you get any
better advice), you can try removing the reddened line out of your
/usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2009 (I'd make a backup copy before
editing).

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Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's wrong with emerge

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday 03 June 2009 09:23:51 Arttu V. wrote:

> ... I wonder why isn't your profiles directory updated by the sync ...

It gets in the way of portage. As soon as it finds a profile update it can't 
handle it aborts whatever it's about to do, even if that's syncing.

I got out of this on one box by copying over the profiles from another box 
that wasn't affected. Then a --sync brought it all back into line.

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Rgds
Peter