seems to be there is a blocking. i cant emerge genkernel, because neither mask =app-misc/pax-utils-0.6 help. i got this error: emerge sys-kernel/genkernel -av * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.45 USE="crypt -cryptsetup (-ibm) (-selinux)" 0 kB [blocks B ] =app-misc/pax-utils-0.5 ("=app-misc/pax-utils-0.5" is blocking sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.45) Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 0 kB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.45::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by sys-kernel/genkernel Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.11.60 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.7.2, glibc-2.17, 3.8.5-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.8.5-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3740QM_CPU_@_2.70GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 24627880 total, 19618996 free KiB Swap: 25081852 total, 25081852 free Timestamp of tree: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8::pentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.13.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3, 4.7.2-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r5::gnome sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.8 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: gentoo mpd nikai ruby mgorny poly-c pentoo luman qt alice wirelay Techwolf gamerlay scarabeus science gnome steam-overlay mva emacs flameeyes-overlay lokal ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=corei7 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/X11/Sessions/awesome /etc/X11/Sessions/dwm /etc/conf.d/consolefont /etc/conf.d/hostname /etc/conf.d/hwclock /etc/conf.d/keymaps /etc/default/grub /etc/eix-sync.conf /etc/fstab /etc/hosts /etc/locale.gen /etc/make.conf /etc/timezone /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=corei7 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j9"
You can't have that version of genkernel installed with that version of pax-utils. So either use older pax-utils or older genkernel.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 464334 ***
