when I do an emerge -u --deep world, I get this output: >Calculating world dependencies \ >emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "=app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1". I have rsynced several times and still the problem remains. The problem seems to be that I only have ebuilds of "docbook-sgml-dtd" with "-r1" at the end of the name. this is the output of "locate *docbook-sgml-dtd* | grep ebuild" >/usr/portage/app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.0-r1.ebuild >/usr/portage/app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1-r1.ebuild >/usr/portage/app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.0-r1.ebuild >/usr/portage/app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.1-r1.ebuild >/var/db/pkg/app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.0/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.0.ebuild >/var/db/pkg/app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1.ebuild >/var/db/pkg/app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.0/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.0.ebuild >/var/db/pkg/app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.1/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.1.ebuild
as you've detected clean up your local dep cache try rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/*
doing rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/* solved the problem, should I close the bug now? sorry for asking, but I'm new to bug reports...
closing this