On Friday 30 December 2005 14:27, Robert Persson wrote: > I ran emerge sync earlier this evening and I got the following at the end > of the output: > > Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2005 > (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) > .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' > s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update > /etc/portage/package.*' .Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 10, in ? > import portage > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7480, in ? > do_upgrade(mykey) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7385, in do_upgrade > key=dep_getkey(line.split()[0]) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3609, in dep_getkey > if mydep[-1]=="*": > IndexError: string index out of range > > I now get the same error messages when I try to emerge anything, including > portage. In other words portage is completely broken. > > What should I do?
One of your /etc/portage/package.* files contains an invalid atom. By the look of the traceback, you have a line with just a "*" perhaps? -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
