From 9488f70dbb9b66bfc55c08f87efb603584a1365c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lxnay <lxnay@cd1c1023-2f26-0410-ae45-c471fc1f0318>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:05:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] EquoInterface/get_meant_package(): - ignore strings too long

git-svn-id: http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/projects/entropy/trunk@2561 cd1c1023-2f26-0410-ae45-c471fc1f0318
---
 libraries/entropy.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libraries/entropy.py b/libraries/entropy.py
index dba461ee5..736cf4587 100644
--- a/libraries/entropy.py
+++ b/libraries/entropy.py
@@ -1442,7 +1442,10 @@ class EquoInterface(TextInterface):
             if x.isalpha():
                 x = "(%s{1,})?" % (x,)
                 match_string += x
-        match_exp = re.compile(match_string,re.IGNORECASE)
+        try:
+            match_exp = re.compile(match_string,re.IGNORECASE)
+        except AssertionError: # too many groups
+            return set()
 
         matched = {}
         valid_repos = self.validRepositories