Portage munged

[sgtrock]

Hi, all. I did the gcc upgrade to 3.4 over Xmas break. Since then I've installed a few packages successfully. A couple of days ago portage began failing completely. Here is the error message that I get:

sgtrock ~ # emerge --info


Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006
(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 7372, in do_upgrade
db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.move_ent(mysplit)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4683, in move_ent
origmatches=self.match(origcp,use_cache=0)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4829, in match
return match_from_list(mydep,self.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache))
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4134, in match_from_list
raise KeyError, "Specific key requires an operator (%s) (try adding an '=')" % (mydep)
KeyError: "Specific key requires an operator (dev-perl/DateTime-0.2901) (try adding an '=')"
sgtrock ~ #

Same error when I try a sync:

sgtrock ~ # emerge sync


Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006
(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 7372, in do_upgrade
db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.move_ent(mysplit)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4683, in move_ent
origmatches=self.match(origcp,use_cache=0)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4829, in match
return match_from_list(mydep,self.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache))
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4134, in match_from_list
raise KeyError, "Specific key requires an operator (%s) (try adding an '=')" % (mydep)
KeyError: "Specific key requires an operator (dev-perl/DateTime-0.2901) (try adding an '=')"

Any thoughts on what I should try?

TIA

[Earthwings]

Do you have dev-perl/DateTime-0.2901 in one of the /etc/portage/package.* files? Check that operators are set appropriately, i.e. it is prefixed with a "=" there. Post it here if in doubt.

[th0th696]

Same thing here. Same error and same upgrade over Xmas. But I'm not sure it was actually that upgrade that broke the system. Like sgtrock, I have compiled packages since then, it seems something in the past week has broken things.

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darth ~ # cat /etc/portage/*
app-admin/eselect ~x86
app-admin/eselect-opengl ~x86
media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86 
media-video/nvidia-glx ~x86
sci-mathematics/scilab ~x86
=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629
=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629
sys-libs/glibc userlocales
cat: /etc/portage/sets: Is a directory
darth ~ # grep e /etc/portage/*
/etc/portage/package.keywords:app-admin/eselect ~x86
/etc/portage/package.keywords:app-admin/eselect-opengl ~x86
/etc/portage/package.keywords:media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86 
/etc/portage/package.keywords:media-video/nvidia-glx ~x86
/etc/portage/package.keywords:sci-mathematics/scilab ~x86
/etc/portage/package.mask:=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629
/etc/portage/package.mask:=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629
/etc/portage/package.use:sys-libs/glibc userlocales

I dont think it's an added package keyword or anything similar

[sgtrock]

Here's what's in /etc/portage:

jim@sgtrock /etc/portage $ cat package.keywords
app-office/planner ~x86
dev-util/eclipse-pydev-bin ~x86
www-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86
>=app-office/openoffice-bin-1.9.122
>=games-fps/quake1-2.40-r1 -*
jim@sgtrock /etc/portage $

jim@sgtrock /etc/portage $ cat package.unmask
>=app-office/openoffice-bin-1.9.122

jim@sgtrock /etc/portage $ cat package.use
sys-libs/glibc nptl

There is nothing in /etc/portage/sets. Any other ideas? I'd love to hear some, as I'm more than a little perplixed and perpizzled.

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[sgtrock]

TY!

[Earthwings]

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads, see the thread linked by Section_8.