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From: "Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync failed
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:50:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1319413813.13481.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA4A609.6030402@hfigge.myfqdn.de>

On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 01:40 +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> emerge --sync was successfull till 'Performing Global Updates' which
> leaded to an error. After waiting for perhaps 1 to 2 hours i tried
> another 'emerge --sync' in the hope that would fix the issue. No luck.
> 
> ---------------
> i5 hafi # emerge --sync
> 
> Performing Global Updates:
> (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.*'
> /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2011..........................
> /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2011......
> ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2 dev-php/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in <module>
>     retval = emerge_main()
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1531, in emerge_main
>     _global_updates(trees, mtimedb["updates"], quiet=("--quiet" in myopts)):
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/_global_updates.py", line 160, in _global_updates
>     moves = vardb.move_ent(update_cmd, repo_match=repo_match)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 300, in move_ent
>     origmatches = self.match(origcp, use_cache=0)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 474, in match
>     origdep, mydb=self, use_cache=use_cache, settings=self.settings)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/dep_expand.py", line 33, in dep_expand
>     mydep = Atom(mydep, allow_repo=True)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dep/__init__.py", line 1097, in __init__
>     raise InvalidAtom(self)
> InvalidAtom: dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2
> ---------------

I'm seeing this chatter now.  It looks like someone made a typo.  And
some mirrors are still picking it up.

You should be able to delete /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2011 (or
edit the file and fix it... it's pretty straighforward) and continue
from there.

-a





  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-23 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-23 23:40 [gentoo-user] emerge --sync failed Hartmut Figge
2011-10-23 23:50 ` Albert W. Hopkins [this message]
2011-10-24  0:06   ` [gentoo-user] " Hartmut Figge
2011-10-24  8:14 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-24 21:21   ` Hartmut Figge
2011-10-25  5:14     ` Nikos Chantziaras

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