$ sudo emerge g-cpan Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-portage/g-cpan-0.13.02 to / >>> checksums files ;-) g-cpan-0.13.01.ebuild >>> checksums files ;-) g-cpan-0.13.02.ebuild >>> checksums files ;-) files/digest-g-cpan-0.13.01 >>> checksums files ;-) files/digest-g-cpan-0.13.02 >>> checksums src_uri ;-) g-cpan-0.13.02.tar.gz * This ebuild will fail with collision-protect in place. * This ebuild is replacing a package that was previously * bundled with portage directly. Please disable * collision-protect for the installation of this package. !!! ERROR: app-portage/g-cpan-0.13.02 failed. !!! Function pkg_setup, Line 22, Exitcode 0 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. However, after bypassing that check, it actually installs just fine with collision-protect enabled now that the portage versions it mentions are history, so please consider removing it. Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.0.2, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre13 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/dist" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect cvs distlocks noauto notitles sandbox sfperms sign strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org " LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en en_GB ja nl" PKGDIR="/var/pkg" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/cvs/gentoo-x86" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/etc/portage/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X acl apm asf audiofile avi bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia cdr cjk crypt cscope css cups dlloader dri dvdread emboss encode expat fam ffmpeg firefox ftp gif gmp gpgme gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imlib immqt ipv6 ithreads jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lcms libg++ libwww linuxthreads-tls lynxkeymap mbox mmx mng mozdevelop mpeg mplayer ncurses nethack nls noamazon nocxx nopie nossp nowebdav nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pcre pdflib pic png ppds quicktime readline real reiser4 rtc sdl spell ssl tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales v4l vim-pager vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib zvbi elibc elibc_glibc kernel kernel_linux linguas linguas_en linguas_en_GB linguas_ja linguas_nl userland userland_GNU video_cards video_cards_radeon" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
Yeah, better use a blocker for this.
This got fixed a while ago, but the bug was never closed, so doing that now. Thanks :)