I've tried to unemerge two old develpment kernels, but I received an error. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use portage 2.0.50-pre16 2. emerge -C sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.1-r1 sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.1-r2 3. emerge -C /usr/portage/sys-kernel/mm-sources/mm-sources-2.6.1-r1.ebuild /usr/portage/sys-kernel/mm-sources/mm-sources-2.6.1-r2.ebuild Actual Results: cerrito on GSM root # emerge -C sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.1-r1 sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.1-r2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2194, in ? if 1==unmerge(myaction, myfiles): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1651, in unmerge mymatch=localtree.dep_match(x) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3946, in dep_match mymatch=self.dbapi.match(mydep) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3865, in match mymatch=match_from_list(mydep,self.cp_list(mykey)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3258, in match_from_list raise KeyError, "Specific key requires an operator (%s)" % (mydep) KeyError: 'Specific key requires an operator (sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.1-r1)' cerrito on GSM root # emerge -C /usr/portage/sys-kernel/mm-sources/mm-sources-2.6.1-r1.ebuild /usr/portage/sys-kernel/mm-sources/mm-sources-2.6.1-r2.ebuild ['', 'usr', 'portage', 'sys-kernel', 'mm-sources', 'mm-sources-2.6.1-r1.ebuild'] /usr/portage/sys-kernel/mm-sources/mm-sources-2.6.1-r1.ebuild !!! /usr/portage/sys-kernel/mm-sources/mm-sources-2.6.1-r1.ebuild is not inside /var/db/pkg; aborting. Expected Results: Unmerge the unwanted software. cerrito on GSM root # etcat -v mm-sources [ Results for search key : mm-sources ] [ Candidate applications found : 4 ] Only printing found installed programs. * sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.1-r1 : [ I] 2.6.1-r1 (2.6.1-mm1) * sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.1-r2 : [ ~I] 2.6.1-r2 (2.6.1-mm2) * sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.1-r3 : [ ~I] 2.6.1-r3 (2.6.1-mm3) * sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.1-r4 : [ I] 2.6.1-r4 (2.6.1-mm4) cerrito on GSM root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50_pre16 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20031222-r0, 2.6.1-mm3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1-mm3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1200MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mfpmath=sse -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -falign-functions=32 -fforce-addr" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mi.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/gentoo http://212.219.56.162/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://194.83.57.2/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://194.83.57.3/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.flashnet.it/mirror/12/sunsite.unc.edu/Gentoo http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ftp.edisontel.com/pub/Sunsite_Mirror http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/portoverlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bluetooth bonobo cdr crypt cups dga directfb dvd encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib irda java jpeg kde kerberos krb4 ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod miknod mmx mng motif mozilla mpeg nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp python qt quicktime radeon readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang socks5 spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_radeon" cerrito on GSM root #
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29856 ***
Are you sure this bug is a duplicate? emerge must (eventually) give nice output about wrong name of the package, but cannot give a traceback.
