emerge --info follows: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2006.0/2.4, gcc-20050130, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.4.30-sparc sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.30-sparc sparc64 sun4u app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] 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-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.26-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="sparc apache2 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dlloader dri eds emboss encode esd fbcon foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gdbm gif gnome gstreamer iconv imlib isdnlog jpeg libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3 readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_mga video_cards_savage video_cards_sisusb video_cards_sunbw2 video_cards_suncg14 video_cards_suncg3 video_cards_suncg6 video_cards_sunffb video_cards_sunleo video_cards_tdfx video_cards_v4l video_cards_voodoo" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS When attempting to upgrade to profile 2006.0 from 2005.1 on sparc achitecture, emerge -epv world complains that virtual/libiconv is masked by missing keyword and it is a dependency for gettext.
virtual/libiconv is keyworded sparc... http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/virtual/libiconv/libiconv-0.ebuild?rev=1.2&view=markup
