1. emerge -vauD world now portage emerging (upgrade to) dbus-0.60 2. emerge -vauD world now portage emerging (downgrade to) dbus-0.23 i have this "effect" on my laptop-gentoo (x86) AND on my amd64-gentoo. how can i stop these invinite upgrade/downgrade-loop for dbus (and hald by the way!) ???? *arg* ;) localhost ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-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/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE@euro" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 64bit X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 arts artworkextra asf atk audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bl bonobo bootsplash browserplugin bzip2 ccache cdr cpudetection crypt cups curl custom-cflags dbus dga dmx doc dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam fat fbcon festival ffmpeg firefox font-server foomaticdb fortran fuse gatos gd ggi gif gimp glut gnokii gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hpn idea idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jce jikes jpeg junit kde lcms libclamav lm_sensors log4j logitech-mouse lzw lzw-tiff mad mng mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mp4live mpeg mplayer ncurses nls no-old-linux ntfs nvidia ogg on-the-fly-crypt opengl openssh openssl osc pam pam_console pcre pdflib perl png posix python qt quicktime readline recode reiserfs rtc samba sdl sendmail shared sharedmem smime sockets spell sql ssl subtitles sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vim-with-x visualization vorbis wifi xatrix xcomposite xext xine xinerama xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zip zlib video_cards_nvidia linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Because you are mixing amd64 and ~amd64 ebuilds. Take care of unmasking all required stuff that pulls in dbus-0.23* in /etc/portage/package.keywords. This is no bug but incorrect usage of portage. Closing.
