Recovering from a broken portage

[zandor]

I was a afraid this miight happen someday so I wish I had asked this earlier but is there any documentation somewhere on how to recover broken portage system? Currently I cannot use emerge or ebuild to update any packages. After doing an update (emerge --update world) last night a new pythone2.2 was installed that I'm guessing broke portage. Specifically here is the error.


zandor root # emerge -s arg
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6, in ?
import output
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/output.py", line 4, in ?
import portage;
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 54, in ?
import fchksum,types
ImportError: No module named fchksum

Any help is appreciated.

-Zandor

[delta407]

Yep, same thing happened to me. I filed a bug report and it ought to be fixed in CVS. But, here's the fix:

http://www.azstarnet.com/~donut/programs/fchksum.html

Download, unpack, run ./configure, run "python setup.py build", and run "python setup.py install" and everything should be good again.

[Guest]

Just noticed this in the changelog. Guess I'll have to be a bit more careful of the worl update. I still love my "gotta have it now bleeding edge" gentoo box though!!

Thanks for the fix, I'll try it now...

-Zandor

# ChangeLog for dev-lang/python
# Copyright 2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL

# /space/gentoo/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/python/ChangeLog,v 1.6 2002/04/25 02:03:01 jnelson Exp

*python-2.2-r6 (24 Apr 2002)

24 Apr 2002; Jon Nelson <jnelson@gentoo.org> python-2.2-r6.ebuild :

Make python build with shared modules.
Depends on python-fchksum, as fchksum *no longer built in*

[Target]

The circular dependency in something portage relies on and the horrors associated with it have also been brought up in this post:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=941