emerge -pC gcc >>> These are the packages that I would unmerge: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2966, in ? if 1==unmerge(myaction, myfiles): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2208, in unmerge print red("\a\n\n!!! '%s' is part of your system profile. '%s'" % (mykey)) TypeError: not enough arguments for format string Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
You neglected to post emerge --info output.
It's valid.
Portage 2.0.52-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.13-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo i686 AMD Duron(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-tbird -mtune=athlon-tbird -fstack-protector -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-tbird -mtune=athlon-tbird -fstack-protector -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache distlocks prelink sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://gentoo.umfiasi.ro/gentoo-portage/" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dba divx4linux dvdr eds emboss encode esd flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimp gnokii gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib jack java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmxext motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real samba scanner sdl skey slang sms snmp spell sse ssl svga symlink tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vl4 vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xv xvid yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I have gentoolkit in /etc/portage/profile/packages and ran into the error when trying to unmerge gentoolkit. I removed gentoolkit from my system profile and it worked fine. Portage 2.0.52-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa arts crypt esd gif gtk gtk2 imap java jpeg kde kdexdeltas mbox mmx mozilla mp3 nsplugin oggvorbis pam png readline spell sse ssl tiff usb vorbis xscreensaver zlib linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
(In reply to comment #4) > I have gentoolkit in /etc/portage/profile/packages and ran into the error when > trying to unmerge gentoolkit. I removed gentoolkit from my system profile and it > worked fine. I don't even have such a file on my system. I have a directory /usr/portage/profile (not /etc), but there is no packages file in it. Anyway, I'm haveing the same problem trying to unmerge glibc on AMD with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd" and USE="nptl".
That is because in my case, I had extended my system profile using files in /etc/portage. glibc and gcc are in your system profile (which is the directory pointed to by the /etc/make.profile symbolic link). If you understand the profiles, you could remove them in order to work around this bug. However, messing with the profiles and unmerging system packages can quickly make your system unusable. So I wouldn't recommend doing that, unless you have a good backup and understand what you are doing. For more information "man portage" is a good place to start.
*** Bug 106646 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Yeap... I've hit it: nelchael@nelchael ~$ emerge -pvC binutils glibc >>> These are the packages that I would unmerge: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2966, in ? if 1==unmerge(myaction, myfiles): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2208, in unmerge print red("\a\n\n!!! '%s' is part of your system profile. '%s'" % (mykey)) TypeError: not enough arguments for format string nelchael@nelchael ~$ emerge -pv portage binutils glibc These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.52-r1 -build (-selinux) 0 kB *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, recalculate dependencies, and complete the merge. You may avoid the remerging of packages by updating portage on its own. [ebuild R ] sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1 -multislot -multitarget +nls -test 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r1 -build -erandom -glibc-compat20 -glibc-omitfp -hardened -linuxthreads-tls (-multilib) +nls +nptl +nptlonly -pic -profile (-selinux) +userlocales 24 kB Total size of downloads: 24 kB nelchael@nelchael ~$ emerge info Portage 2.0.52-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.13-ck6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-ck6 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy cvs digest distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors1.netvisao.pt/gentoo/ http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt eds emboss foomaticdb fortran gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kdeenablefinal libg++ libwww mad mmx mmx2 mmxext mpeg ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS nelchael@nelchael ~$
fixed in the masked .53
