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Bug 116168

Summary: portage "Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild"
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Carsten Raddatz <bugs-gentoo>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: bugs-gentoo
Priority: High    
Version: 2005.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Carsten Raddatz 2005-12-20 06:06:28 UTC
in a fresh start in a chroot environment (with stage3), after initial emerge --sync encountered this:

" (lots of foobar output)
deleting media-gfx/skencil/files/digest-skencil-0.6.16_pre3

Number of files: 132773
Number of files transferred: 210
Total file size: 108775026 bytes
Total transferred file size: 653347 bytes
Literal data: 653467 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 3080439
Total bytes written: 4381
Total bytes read: 3743871

wrote 4381 bytes  read 3743871 bytes  31105.83 bytes/sec
total size is 108775026  speedup is 29.02

>>> Updating Portage cache:   88%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.
!!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/x11-6.8)"

so I did. 

portage version is as of today, portage20051219.tar.bz2

will try with yesterdays build of portage.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-12-20 06:09:14 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114798 ***