4036 2002-06-22 15:47 0000 portage doesn't find mc unless specified as gnome-extra/mc 2003-12-27 00:30:19 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Portage Development Unclassified (old) unspecified x86 Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 minor --- 1 danarmak@gentoo.org drobbins@gentoo.org vapier@gentoo.org danarmak@gentoo.org 2002-06-22 15:47:31 0000 Portage 2.0.4, gcc 1.3 (built from the 1.3b tbz2). I didn't see this before on my gcc2.x system. People on #gentoo-dev confirmed this. laptop portage # emerge -p mc These are the packages that I would merge, in order. Calculating dependencies !!! Couldn't find match for mc; aborting. laptop portage # emerge -p gnome-extra/mc These are the packages that I would merge, in order. Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] gnome-extra/mc-4.5.55-r5 to / laptop portage # emerge -s ^mc [ Results for search key : ^mc ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * gnome-extra/mc Latest version Available: 4.5.55-r5 Latest version Installed: 4.5.55-r5 Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/mc/ Description: GNOME Midnight Commander danarmak@gentoo.org 2002-06-22 15:51:39 0000 *** Bug 4035 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** vapier@gentoo.org 2002-06-22 21:54:38 0000 the 'ed' package has same problem ... drobbins@gentoo.org 2002-06-23 17:30:45 0000 This will be fixed in Portage 2.0.5. Caused by an unnecessary length check on dependencies, causing ones of length 2 or less to be (incorrectly) marked invalid.