I found a circulair dependancy in sys-apps/man-1.5k-r1 and sys-apps/groff-1.18.1
cr root # emerge -p system Calculating dependencies \ !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-apps/groff-1.18" have been masked. !!! (dependency required by "sys-apps/man-1.5k-r1" [ebuild]) cr root # emerge -s groff Searching... [ Results for search key : groff ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-apps/groff Latest version available: 1.17.2-r3 Latest version installed: 1.17.2-r3 Size of downloaded files: 1,467 kB Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html Description: Text formatter used for man pages cr root # vim /usr/portage/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.18.1.ebuild ~~~~ inherit eutils S="${WORKDIR}/${P}" DESCRIPTION="Text formatter used for man pages" SRC_URI="ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/GNU/groff/${P}.tar.gz" HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html" KEYWORDS="x86 ~ppc ~sparc ~alpha ~mips" SLOT="0" LICENSE="GPL-2" DEPEND="virtual/glibc" ~~~~ Oh i found not masked groff, but .... cr root # emerge --nodeps /usr/portage/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.18.1.ebuild cr root # emerge -p system These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating system dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.13.90.0.16-r1 [2.13.90.0.16-r0] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.2.1-r6 [3.2.1-r0] [ebuild N ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.0 [ebuild U ] sys-devel/perl-5.8.0-r8 [5.6.1-r10] [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Safe-2.09 [ebuild U ] net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p3-r3 [1.3.20_p0-r1] [ebuild UD] sys-apps/groff-1.17.2-r3 [1.18.1-r0] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/iptables-1.2.7a-r3 [1.2.7a-r0] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/psmisc-21.2 [19-r3] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.3-r1 [4.3-r0] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/pam-0.75-r11 [0.75-r10] This is bug emerge. Emerge not corectly find number last version groff. This bugs bigin with "system testing and relese branch".
should be fixed groff 1.18.1 is stable now
