116168 – portage "Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild"

Bug 116168 - portage "Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild"

Summary: portage "Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild"

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 114798

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2005-12-20 06:06 UTC by Carsten Raddatz
Modified:	2005-12-20 06:09 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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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 ***