Bug 164540

Summary:	a missing CATEGORY file in vdb should be recoverable
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alex <nesl247>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	masterdriverz
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	200044
Attachments:	reinsert CATEGORY into the environment if it's not predefined

Description Alex 2007-01-30 13:23:24 UTC

When updating to kde 3.5.6, I've received some errors like this (includes the packages which have issues so far):

>>> Auto-cleaning packages...

 kde-base/ksirc
    selected: 3.5.5-r1 
   protected: 3.5.6 
     omitted: none

 kde-base/kcontrol
    selected: 3.5.5 
   protected: 3.5.6 
     omitted: none

 kde-base/kicker
    selected: 3.5.5 
   protected: 3.5.6 
     omitted: none

>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
>>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.

>>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting...
>>> (Control-C to abort)...
>>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 
>>> Unmerging kde-base/ksirc-3.5.5-r1...

!!! ERROR: /ksirc-3.5.5-r1 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1508:   Called source '/var/db/pkg/kde-base/ksirc-3.5.5-r1/ksirc-3.5.5-r1.ebuild'
  ksirc-3.5.5-r1.ebuild, line 8:   Called inherit 'kde-meta' 'eutils'
  ebuild.sh, line 1253:   Called qa_source '/usr/portage/eclass/kde-meta.eclass'
  ebuild.sh, line 28:   Called source '/usr/portage/eclass/kde-meta.eclass'
  kde-meta.eclass, line 116:   Called get-parent-package '/ksirc'
  kde-functions.eclass, line 369:   Called die

!!! Package  not found in KDE_DERIVATION_MAP, please report bug
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/binpkgs/kde-base/ksirc-3.5.5-r1/temp/build.log'.

!!! FAILED prerm: 1

A removal phase of the 'kde-base/ksirc-3.5.5-r1' package has failed with
exit value 1. The problem occurred while executing the ebuild located at
'/var/db/pkg/kde-base/ksirc-3.5.5-r1/ksirc-3.5.5-r1.ebuild'. If
necessary, manually remove the ebuild in order to skip the execution of
removal phases.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-30 13:39:24 UTC

Do you have any kde*.eclass in overlay?

Comment 2 Alex 2007-01-30 13:48:30 UTC

Only in an inactive overlay, and it's not an eclass in portage anyways...

Comment 3 Charlie Shepherd (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-10 19:16:34 UTC

Worked this out on IRC, it's a combination of using pkgcore (which doesn't write a CATEGORY file to the vdb) and a portage bug if the CATEGORY file doesn't exist.

Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-02-10 19:30:25 UTC

Reassigning...

Comment 5 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-10 23:02:13 UTC

Created attachment 109811 [details, diff]
reinsert CATEGORY into the environment if it's not predefined

should do it, although a verification run might be wise.

Comment 6 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-12-05 02:47:27 UTC

This bug is related to 201082. It's fixed in svn r8832 to work with a missing CATEGORY file.